1 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Typo, Closes: #139176
4 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
8 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
14 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
20 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
22 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
26 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
32 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
35 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
36 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
37 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
38 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
40 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
41 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
45 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
47 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
51 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
53 * Typo, Closes: #132454
54 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
58 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
61 upset. Closes: #131322
63 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
65 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
68 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
69 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
70 line, as well as in debian/rules.
71 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
72 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
73 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
74 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
75 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
76 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
77 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
78 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
79 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
80 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
81 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
82 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
84 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
88 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
91 - Better indenting of generated code.
92 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
96 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
98 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
100 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
101 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
102 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
103 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
104 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
105 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
106 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
110 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
113 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
117 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
120 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
121 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
122 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
123 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
124 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
125 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
126 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
127 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
128 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
129 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
130 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
131 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
132 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
133 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
134 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
139 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
141 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
145 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
148 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
149 * fixed dh_testdir man page
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
153 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Typo, Closes: #122679
156 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
157 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
161 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
167 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
170 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
171 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
172 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
173 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
174 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
179 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
181 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
185 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
188 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
192 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
195 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
200 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Typo, Closes: #114135
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
206 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
208 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
209 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
213 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
219 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
223 Also some indentation fixes.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
227 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
229 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
230 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
231 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
232 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
233 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
234 Closes: #106514, #85520
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
238 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Typo, Closes: #104405
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
244 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
250 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
252 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
256 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
262 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
268 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
271 change it in debhelper v4..
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
275 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
281 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
284 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
288 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
291 is not essential. Closes: #100430
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
295 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
301 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
304 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
305 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
306 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
307 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
308 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
309 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
310 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
311 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
312 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
313 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
314 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
315 prefixed with ".debhelper")
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
319 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
322 look just like shared libs, but are not.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
326 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
333 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
336 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
337 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
338 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
339 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
340 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
341 program those options go to. So, for example,
342 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
343 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
344 something complex. Closes: #89311
345 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
349 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
352 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
353 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
354 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
358 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
361 through loop. Closes: #98598
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
365 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Missing semi-colon.
368 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
369 this (dh_* should be called, really).
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
373 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
376 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
377 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
378 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
382 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
384 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
385 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
386 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
390 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
393 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
397 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
400 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
401 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
405 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
408 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
409 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
410 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
414 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
416 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
417 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
418 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
419 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
423 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
426 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
430 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
432 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
436 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Typo, Closes: #92407
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
442 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
448 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
454 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
457 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
461 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
464 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
465 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
466 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
467 followed. Closes: #85483
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
471 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
473 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
474 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
475 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
479 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
482 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
483 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
484 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
485 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
486 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
487 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
488 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
489 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
490 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
491 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
492 Closes: #88464, #77743
493 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
494 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
495 us to deal with that gracefully.
496 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
498 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
499 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
500 a while, Closes: #51225
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
504 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
510 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
513 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
517 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
521 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
526 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
529 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
530 don't make packlist files.
531 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
532 debhelper coding standards.
533 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
534 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
538 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
540 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
541 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
545 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
548 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
549 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
550 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
551 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
552 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
553 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
554 but is mildly deprecated.
555 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
556 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
557 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
558 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
559 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
560 switching to statoverrides..
561 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
562 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
563 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
564 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
565 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
566 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
568 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
569 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
570 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
571 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
572 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
573 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
574 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
575 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
576 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
578 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
579 variable names, pod man pages).
580 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
581 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
582 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
583 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
584 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
585 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
586 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
590 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
596 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
603 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
606 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
610 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
612 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
613 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
614 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
618 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
620 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
621 they were previously ignored.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
625 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
627 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
628 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
632 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
634 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
635 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
636 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
640 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
642 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
646 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
648 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
649 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
653 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
655 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
656 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
657 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
658 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
659 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
660 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
661 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
662 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
663 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
664 it is an obsolete program.
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
668 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
670 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
674 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
678 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
680 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
684 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
686 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
688 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
690 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
694 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
700 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
702 * typo: Closes, #78567
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
706 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
712 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
718 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
720 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
721 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
722 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
723 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
724 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
725 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
729 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
732 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
737 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
740 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
741 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
742 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
743 backwards-compatability.
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
747 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
749 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
750 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
751 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
752 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
753 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
754 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
755 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
757 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
758 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
759 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
761 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
763 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
764 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
765 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
766 should now be raised to severity important..
767 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
768 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
772 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
775 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
780 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
782 * Typo, Closes: #77441
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
786 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Completed the fix from the last version.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
792 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
798 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
800 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
805 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
808 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
809 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
810 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
811 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
815 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
821 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
824 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
825 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
826 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
827 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
828 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
829 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
834 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
836 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
837 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
841 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
847 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
849 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
850 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
855 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
858 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
859 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
860 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
861 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
865 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
869 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
872 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
875 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
876 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
879 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
881 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
882 the TODO entry about it.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
886 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
893 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
896 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
897 prevent that. Closes: #73052
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
901 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Typo, Closes: #72932
904 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
905 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
906 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
907 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
911 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
917 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
924 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
927 (this appears to be logal).
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
931 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
934 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
935 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
936 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
937 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
941 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
947 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
949 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
950 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
951 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
952 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
953 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
957 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
963 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
966 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
970 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
972 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
977 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
980 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
981 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
982 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
987 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
994 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1000 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1003 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1004 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1005 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1006 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1007 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1008 notice until v2 is complete.
1009 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1010 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1011 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1012 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1013 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1014 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1016 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1017 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1018 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1019 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1023 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1025 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1029 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1036 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1039 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1043 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1050 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1053 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1054 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1055 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1056 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1061 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1064 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1065 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1066 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1071 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1074 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1075 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1079 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1082 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1086 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1089 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1093 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1100 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1103 depend on the build and install targets.
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1107 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1110 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1114 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1121 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1127 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1133 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1136 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1137 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1138 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1139 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1140 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1141 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1143 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1144 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1145 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1146 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1147 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1148 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1149 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1153 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1159 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1165 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1168 right place. Closes: #55065
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1172 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1179 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1182 * Copyright date updates.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1186 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1189 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1194 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1200 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1207 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1213 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1219 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1225 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1228 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1229 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1230 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1231 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1232 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1233 bits until all files have been registered.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1237 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_installmanpages:
1240 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1241 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1242 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1243 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1244 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1245 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1246 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1247 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1248 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1249 otherwise change the result at all.
1251 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1252 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1253 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1254 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1255 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1260 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1266 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1269 act on files that don't exist.
1270 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1271 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1272 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1274 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1275 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1276 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1277 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1281 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1287 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1293 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1296 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1300 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1303 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1305 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1306 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1307 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1311 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1314 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1315 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1316 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1317 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1318 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1319 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1320 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1322 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1324 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1328 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1335 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1341 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1347 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1350 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1354 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1360 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1366 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1369 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1370 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1371 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1372 I made some changes, though:
1373 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1374 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1375 that is a clear violation of policy.
1376 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1377 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1378 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1379 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1380 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1381 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1382 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1383 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1384 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1386 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1390 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1396 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1399 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1403 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1406 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1407 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1412 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1418 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1425 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1428 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1429 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1430 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1431 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1432 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1433 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1434 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1438 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1444 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1448 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1449 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1453 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1459 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1462 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1466 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1469 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1470 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1474 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1476 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1481 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1485 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1492 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1493 for the dependancies to be generated.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1500 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1504 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1507 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1508 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1509 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1514 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1517 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1518 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1522 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1528 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1534 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1537 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1541 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1547 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1550 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1551 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1552 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1553 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1554 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1555 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1556 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1557 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1558 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1559 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1560 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1561 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1565 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1568 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1569 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1571 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1572 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1573 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1574 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1575 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1576 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1578 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1579 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1583 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1586 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1590 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1597 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1600 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1605 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1608 for building debhelper.
1609 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1613 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1620 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1623 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1627 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1630 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1631 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1632 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1633 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1634 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1635 it's always available.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1639 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1642 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1643 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1644 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1648 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1651 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1652 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1656 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1662 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1665 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1669 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1675 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1678 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1679 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1680 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1684 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1687 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1692 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1695 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1696 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1698 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1699 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1703 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1709 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1715 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1718 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1722 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1725 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1726 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1728 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1732 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1735 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1736 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1737 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1741 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1744 things if CDPATH is set.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1748 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1754 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1757 seems to make sense for the transition.
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1761 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1764 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1769 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1772 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1773 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1777 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1780 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1784 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1787 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1788 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1789 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1790 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1794 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1800 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1803 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1804 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1805 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1806 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1807 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1808 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1809 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1810 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1811 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1812 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1817 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1820 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1821 * README: mention doc/v2
1822 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1823 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1827 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1829 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1830 be using this script RSN.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1834 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1837 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1838 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1839 more than 1 init script.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1843 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1846 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1850 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Changed perl version detection.
1853 * Changed call to find.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1857 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1860 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1862 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1867 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Really include dh_installpam.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1873 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1876 * Wrote man page for same.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1880 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1883 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1884 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1889 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1896 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1899 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1900 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1901 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1902 x bit was being set!
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1906 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1909 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1910 well. (Closes: 38900)
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1914 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1917 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1918 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1922 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1928 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1935 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1941 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1944 help from Julian Gilbey.
1945 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1946 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1947 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1948 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1949 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1950 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1951 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1956 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1962 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1969 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1975 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1981 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1984 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1988 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1991 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1995 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1998 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2002 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2008 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2011 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2015 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2021 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2027 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2030 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2031 may be deleted. (#35845)
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2035 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Various man page enhancements.
2038 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2043 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2046 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2047 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2051 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2054 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2055 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2056 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2058 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2059 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2064 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2070 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Another very minor typo fix.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2076 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Very minor typo fix.
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2082 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2085 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2086 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2090 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2096 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2099 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2100 variables properly (#34850).
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2104 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2110 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2113 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2114 (automatically generated by build process).
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2118 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2120 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2124 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2127 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2128 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2130 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2134 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2137 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2141 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * README: minor typo fix.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2147 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2150 leave it at that. :-)
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2154 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2160 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2166 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2169 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2170 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2171 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2175 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2178 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2182 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2185 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2189 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2192 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2193 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2194 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2195 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2199 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2202 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2203 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2204 Craig Small for spotting this.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2208 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2211 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2212 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2216 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2222 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2225 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2229 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2231 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2232 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2233 working on the last version of debhelper.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2237 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2240 being made. (#23255)
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2244 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2250 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2253 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2257 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2260 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2261 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2262 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2263 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2267 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2270 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2271 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2272 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2273 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2275 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2276 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2278 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2283 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2289 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2295 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2298 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2299 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2300 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2301 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2302 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2303 suidregister actually supports it.
2304 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2305 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2309 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2316 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2319 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2320 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2321 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2322 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2323 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2324 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2325 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2329 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2331 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2332 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2336 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2339 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2340 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2341 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2342 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2346 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2349 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2351 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2352 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2353 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2354 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2355 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2356 effect, either. (#30118)
2358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2360 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2362 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2366 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2369 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2370 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2374 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2380 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2383 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2384 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2385 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2386 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2390 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2393 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2394 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2398 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2404 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2407 packages, painlessly.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2411 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2417 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2423 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2429 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * The perl conversion is complete.
2433 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2435 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2436 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2437 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2442 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2445 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2446 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2447 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2451 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2454 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2456 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2458 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2459 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2463 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2466 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2467 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2471 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2477 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2480 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2481 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2482 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2483 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2484 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2488 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2491 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2492 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2493 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2494 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2498 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2501 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2505 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2508 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2509 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2510 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2511 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2512 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2513 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2514 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2515 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2519 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2525 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2528 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2529 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2530 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2535 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2538 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2542 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2545 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2549 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2552 sections of shared libraries.
2553 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2554 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2555 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2556 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2557 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2558 things you don't want them to.
2559 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2560 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2564 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2567 shared libraries. (#26414)
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2571 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2573 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2574 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2575 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2576 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2580 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2584 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2586 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2587 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2588 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2589 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2590 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2594 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2597 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2601 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2604 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2605 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2610 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2613 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2617 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2620 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2621 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2622 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2623 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2624 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2626 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2627 remove debian/files properly.
2628 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2629 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2630 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2631 * Removed bogus menu file.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2635 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2638 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2642 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2645 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2646 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2647 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2648 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2649 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2650 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2654 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2657 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2658 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2659 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2660 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2664 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2671 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2674 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2675 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2677 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2678 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2679 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2680 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2681 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2682 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2686 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2689 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2690 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2691 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2692 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2693 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2694 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2695 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2696 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2697 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2698 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2699 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2700 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2701 passed any switches.
2702 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2706 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2709 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2710 at all for a long while.
2711 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2712 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2713 large chunks in the process.
2714 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2715 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2716 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2721 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2724 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2726 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2731 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2734 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2735 that don't always have the same files in them.
2736 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2737 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2738 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2742 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2746 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2747 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2748 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2749 updating 27 man pages.
2750 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2751 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2752 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2753 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2754 programs act on. (#25247)
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2758 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2762 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2763 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2764 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2765 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2766 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2767 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2772 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2779 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2786 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2789 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2793 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2799 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2802 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2803 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2804 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2805 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2806 package by accident.
2807 * Is version 1.0 next?
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2811 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2814 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2815 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2819 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2822 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2823 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2824 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2825 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2826 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2828 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2833 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2836 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2837 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2841 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2844 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2848 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2851 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2852 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2857 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2863 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2866 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2867 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2872 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2874 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2878 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2881 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2882 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2883 past week. Thanks, guys!
2885 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2886 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2887 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2888 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2889 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2890 would do in the same situation.
2891 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2892 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2894 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2896 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2897 permissions changed.
2898 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2899 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2900 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2901 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2902 files are treated identically.
2903 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2904 * Minor man page fixes.
2905 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2906 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2907 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2911 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2914 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2915 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2916 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2917 use -X multiple times, too.
2918 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2919 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2923 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2926 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2927 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2931 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2934 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2938 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2941 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2942 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2943 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2944 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2945 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2946 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2947 shape if you're starting a new package.
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2951 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2954 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2958 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2961 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2962 because of missing symlinks.
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2966 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2972 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2975 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2976 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2977 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2978 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2979 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2981 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2982 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2986 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2988 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2989 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2990 to be changed after the fact :-)
2991 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2995 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2997 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2998 no version string after the -V.
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3002 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3004 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3005 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3010 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3013 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3017 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3020 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3021 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3022 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3023 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3024 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3025 I always welcome corrections!
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3029 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3035 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3038 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3039 * Documented this new switch.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3043 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3046 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3047 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3048 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3049 no packages use the old behavior.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3053 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3056 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3057 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3061 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3064 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3068 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3074 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3077 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3081 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3084 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3085 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3086 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3090 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3096 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3099 into the source package by accident.
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3103 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3105 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3106 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3107 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3108 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3109 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3110 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3111 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3116 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3120 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3121 inspired to implement some of it.
3122 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3126 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3129 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3133 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3136 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3137 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3141 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3144 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3145 have done.) (#17598)
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3149 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3155 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3161 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3164 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3168 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3171 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3172 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3176 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3179 argument processor in perl.
3180 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3181 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3182 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3183 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3187 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3190 type directories. (#16933)
3191 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3192 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3193 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3194 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3195 are supported. (#16935)
3196 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3201 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3204 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3208 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3212 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3213 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3214 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3215 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3216 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3217 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3221 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3224 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3225 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3227 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3228 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3229 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3230 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3231 a given package, or -i or -a.
3232 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3233 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3234 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3235 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3236 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3237 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3238 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3239 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3240 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3242 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3243 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3244 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3248 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3251 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3252 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3257 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3260 does not have a section.
3262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3264 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3266 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3267 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3268 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3269 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3273 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Fixed typo #16215.
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3279 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3282 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3283 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3284 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3285 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3286 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3291 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3294 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3295 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3296 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3301 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3307 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3313 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3316 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3317 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3318 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3319 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3320 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3321 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3325 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3331 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3334 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3338 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3340 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3341 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3342 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3343 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3347 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3350 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3354 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3360 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3363 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3367 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3370 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3374 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3380 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3383 postinst, postrm, etc.
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3387 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3393 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3396 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3397 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3398 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3399 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3400 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3404 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3407 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3408 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3412 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3415 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3419 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3422 installing package files into.
3423 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3428 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3432 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3436 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3442 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3445 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3449 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3452 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3453 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3454 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3455 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3459 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3461 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3462 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3463 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3464 multiple binary packages.
3465 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3466 should rebuild them with this version.
3467 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3471 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3474 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3478 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3481 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3485 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3488 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3489 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3490 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3491 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3492 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3493 debian/README.debian.
3494 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3495 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3496 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3497 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3498 in a few situations.)
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3502 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3508 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3514 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3517 * Fixed several man pages.
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3521 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3524 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3525 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3529 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3532 is ready for general use.
3533 * Added man pages for all commands.
3534 * Multiple binary package support.
3535 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3536 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3537 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3539 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3540 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3541 auto-installed as parameters.
3542 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3544 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3547 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3548 the package build directory it is to act on.
3549 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3550 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3551 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3555 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3557 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3558 ready to replace debstd.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400