1 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Typo, Closes: #122679
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
8 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
14 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
17 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
18 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
19 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
20 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
21 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
26 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
28 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
32 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
35 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
39 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
42 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
47 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Typo, Closes: #114135
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
53 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
55 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
56 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
60 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
66 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
68 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
70 Also some indentation fixes.
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
74 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
77 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
78 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
79 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
80 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
81 Closes: #106514, #85520
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
85 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Typo, Closes: #104405
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
91 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
97 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
99 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
103 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
109 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
115 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
118 change it in debhelper v4..
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
122 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
128 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
131 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
135 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
138 is not essential. Closes: #100430
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
142 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
148 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
150 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
151 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
152 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
153 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
154 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
155 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
156 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
157 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
158 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
159 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
160 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
161 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
162 prefixed with ".debhelper")
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
166 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
169 look just like shared libs, but are not.
171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
173 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
175 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
180 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
183 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
184 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
185 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
186 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
187 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
188 program those options go to. So, for example,
189 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
190 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
191 something complex. Closes: #89311
192 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
196 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
199 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
200 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
201 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
205 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
208 through loop. Closes: #98598
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
212 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Missing semi-colon.
215 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
216 this (dh_* should be called, really).
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
220 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
222 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
223 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
224 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
225 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
229 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
232 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
233 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
237 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
240 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
244 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
247 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
248 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
252 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
255 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
256 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
257 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
261 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
264 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
265 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
266 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
270 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
273 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
277 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
283 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Typo, Closes: #92407
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
289 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
295 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
301 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
304 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
308 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
311 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
312 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
313 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
314 followed. Closes: #85483
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
318 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
320 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
321 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
322 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
326 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
329 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
330 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
331 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
332 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
333 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
334 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
335 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
336 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
337 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
338 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
339 Closes: #88464, #77743
340 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
341 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
342 us to deal with that gracefully.
343 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
345 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
346 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
347 a while, Closes: #51225
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
351 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
357 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
360 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
364 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
368 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
373 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
375 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
376 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
377 don't make packlist files.
378 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
379 debhelper coding standards.
380 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
381 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
385 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
387 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
388 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
392 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
395 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
396 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
397 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
398 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
399 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
400 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
401 but is mildly deprecated.
402 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
403 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
404 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
405 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
406 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
407 switching to statoverrides..
408 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
409 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
410 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
411 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
412 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
413 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
415 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
416 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
417 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
418 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
419 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
420 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
421 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
422 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
423 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
425 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
426 variable names, pod man pages).
427 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
428 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
429 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
430 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
431 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
432 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
433 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
437 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
443 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
450 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
453 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
457 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
459 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
460 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
461 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
465 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
467 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
468 they were previously ignored.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
472 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
474 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
475 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
479 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
481 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
482 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
483 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
487 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
489 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
493 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
495 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
496 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
500 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
502 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
503 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
504 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
505 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
506 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
507 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
508 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
509 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
510 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
511 it is an obsolete program.
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
515 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
517 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
521 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
525 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
527 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
531 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
533 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
535 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
537 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
541 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
547 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
549 * typo: Closes, #78567
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
553 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
559 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
565 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
567 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
568 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
569 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
570 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
571 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
572 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
576 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
579 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
584 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
587 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
588 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
589 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
590 backwards-compatability.
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
594 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
596 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
597 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
598 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
599 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
600 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
601 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
602 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
604 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
605 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
606 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
608 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
610 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
611 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
612 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
613 should now be raised to severity important..
614 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
615 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
619 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
621 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
622 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
627 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Typo, Closes: #77441
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
633 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Completed the fix from the last version.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
639 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
645 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
647 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
652 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
654 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
655 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
656 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
657 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
658 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
662 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
668 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
670 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
671 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
672 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
673 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
674 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
675 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
676 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
681 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
684 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
688 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
694 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
697 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
702 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
705 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
706 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
707 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
708 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
712 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
716 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
719 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
722 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
723 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
726 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
728 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
729 the TODO entry about it.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
733 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
740 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
743 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
744 prevent that. Closes: #73052
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
748 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
750 * Typo, Closes: #72932
751 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
752 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
753 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
754 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
758 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
760 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
764 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
771 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
774 (this appears to be logal).
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
778 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
781 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
782 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
783 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
784 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
788 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
794 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
796 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
797 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
798 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
799 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
800 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
804 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
806 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
810 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
813 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
817 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
824 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
827 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
828 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
829 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
834 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
841 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
847 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
849 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
850 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
851 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
852 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
853 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
854 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
855 notice until v2 is complete.
856 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
857 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
858 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
859 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
860 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
861 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
863 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
864 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
865 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
866 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
870 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
876 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
878 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
883 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
885 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
886 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
890 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
897 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
900 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
901 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
902 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
903 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
908 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
910 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
911 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
912 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
913 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
918 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
920 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
921 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
922 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
926 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
929 just skip files that end in -\d+.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
933 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
936 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
940 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
942 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
947 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
949 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
950 depend on the build and install targets.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
954 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
957 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
961 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
968 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
970 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
974 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
980 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
983 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
984 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
985 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
986 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
987 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
988 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
990 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
991 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
992 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
993 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
994 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
995 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
996 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1000 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1006 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1012 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1015 right place. Closes: #55065
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1019 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1026 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1029 * Copyright date updates.
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1033 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1036 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1041 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1047 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1054 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1060 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1066 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1072 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1075 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1076 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1077 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1078 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1079 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1080 bits until all files have been registered.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1084 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_installmanpages:
1087 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1088 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1089 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1090 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1091 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1092 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1093 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1094 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1095 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1096 otherwise change the result at all.
1098 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1099 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1100 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1101 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1102 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1107 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1113 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1116 act on files that don't exist.
1117 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1118 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1119 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1121 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1122 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1123 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1124 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1128 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1134 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1140 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1143 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1147 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1150 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1152 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1153 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1154 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1158 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1161 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1162 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1163 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1164 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1165 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1166 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1167 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1169 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1171 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1175 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1182 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1188 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1194 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1197 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1201 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1207 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1213 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1216 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1217 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1218 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1219 I made some changes, though:
1220 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1221 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1222 that is a clear violation of policy.
1223 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1224 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1225 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1226 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1227 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1228 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1229 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1230 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1231 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1233 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1237 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1243 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1246 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1250 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1253 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1254 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1259 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1265 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1272 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1275 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1276 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1277 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1278 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1279 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1280 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1281 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1285 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1291 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1295 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1296 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1300 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1306 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1309 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1313 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1316 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1317 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1321 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1323 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1328 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1332 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1336 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1339 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1340 for the dependancies to be generated.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1344 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1347 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1351 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1354 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1355 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1356 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1361 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1364 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1365 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1369 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1375 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1381 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1384 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1388 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1394 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1397 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1398 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1399 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1400 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1401 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1402 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1403 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1404 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1405 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1406 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1407 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1408 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1412 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1415 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1416 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1418 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1419 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1420 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1421 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1422 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1423 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1425 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1426 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1430 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1433 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1437 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1444 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1447 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1452 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1455 for building debhelper.
1456 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1460 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1467 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1470 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1474 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1477 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1478 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1479 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1480 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1481 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1482 it's always available.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1486 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1489 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1490 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1491 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1495 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1498 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1499 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1503 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1509 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1512 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1516 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1522 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1525 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1526 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1527 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1531 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1534 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1539 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1542 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1543 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1545 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1546 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1550 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1556 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1562 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1565 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1569 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1572 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1573 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1575 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1579 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1582 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1583 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1584 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1588 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1591 things if CDPATH is set.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1595 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1601 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1604 seems to make sense for the transition.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1608 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1611 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1616 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1619 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1620 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1624 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1627 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1631 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1634 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1635 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1636 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1637 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1641 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1647 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1650 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1651 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1652 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1653 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1654 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1655 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1656 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1657 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1658 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1659 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1664 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1667 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1668 * README: mention doc/v2
1669 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1670 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1674 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1676 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1677 be using this script RSN.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1681 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1684 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1685 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1686 more than 1 init script.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1690 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1693 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1697 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Changed perl version detection.
1700 * Changed call to find.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1704 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1707 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1709 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1714 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Really include dh_installpam.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1720 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1723 * Wrote man page for same.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1727 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1730 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1731 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1736 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1743 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1746 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1747 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1748 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1749 x bit was being set!
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1753 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1756 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1757 well. (Closes: 38900)
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1761 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1764 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1765 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1769 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1775 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1782 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1788 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1791 help from Julian Gilbey.
1792 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1793 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1794 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1795 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1796 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1797 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1798 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1803 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1809 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1816 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1822 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1828 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1831 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1835 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1838 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1842 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1845 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1849 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1855 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1858 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1862 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1868 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1874 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1877 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1878 may be deleted. (#35845)
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1882 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Various man page enhancements.
1885 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1890 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1893 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1894 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1898 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1901 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1902 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1903 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1905 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1906 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1911 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1917 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Another very minor typo fix.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1923 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Very minor typo fix.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1929 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1932 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1933 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1937 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1943 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1946 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1947 variables properly (#34850).
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1951 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1957 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1960 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1961 (automatically generated by build process).
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1965 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1967 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1971 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1974 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1975 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1977 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1981 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1984 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1988 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * README: minor typo fix.
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1994 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1997 leave it at that. :-)
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2001 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2007 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2013 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2016 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2017 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2018 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2022 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2025 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2029 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2032 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2036 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2039 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2040 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2041 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2042 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2046 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2049 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2050 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2051 Craig Small for spotting this.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2055 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2058 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2059 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2063 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2069 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2072 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2076 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2078 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2079 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2080 working on the last version of debhelper.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2084 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2087 being made. (#23255)
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2091 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2097 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2100 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2104 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2107 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2108 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2109 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2110 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2114 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2117 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2118 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2119 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2120 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2122 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2123 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2125 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2130 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2136 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2142 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2145 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2146 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2147 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2148 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2149 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2150 suidregister actually supports it.
2151 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2152 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2156 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2163 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2166 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2167 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2168 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2169 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2170 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2171 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2172 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2176 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2178 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2179 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2183 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2186 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2187 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2188 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2189 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2193 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2196 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2198 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2199 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2200 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2201 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2202 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2203 effect, either. (#30118)
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2207 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2213 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2216 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2217 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2221 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2227 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2230 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2231 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2232 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2233 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2237 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2240 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2241 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2245 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2251 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2254 packages, painlessly.
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2258 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2264 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2270 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2276 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * The perl conversion is complete.
2280 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2282 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2283 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2284 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2289 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2292 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2293 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2294 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2298 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2301 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2303 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2305 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2306 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2310 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2313 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2314 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2318 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2324 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2327 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2328 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2329 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2330 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2331 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2335 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2338 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2339 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2340 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2341 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2345 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2348 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2352 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2355 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2356 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2357 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2358 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2359 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2360 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2361 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2362 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2366 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2372 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2375 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2376 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2377 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2382 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2385 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2389 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2392 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2396 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2399 sections of shared libraries.
2400 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2401 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2402 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2403 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2404 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2405 things you don't want them to.
2406 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2407 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2411 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2414 shared libraries. (#26414)
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2418 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2420 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2421 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2422 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2423 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2427 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2431 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2433 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2434 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2435 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2436 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2437 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2441 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2444 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2448 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2451 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2452 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2457 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2460 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2464 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2467 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2468 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2469 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2470 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2471 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2473 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2474 remove debian/files properly.
2475 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2476 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2477 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2478 * Removed bogus menu file.
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2482 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2485 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2489 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2492 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2493 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2494 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2495 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2496 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2497 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2501 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2504 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2505 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2506 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2507 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2511 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2518 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2521 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2522 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2524 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2525 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2526 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2527 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2528 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2529 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2533 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2536 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2537 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2538 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2539 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2540 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2541 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2542 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2543 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2544 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2545 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2546 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2547 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2548 passed any switches.
2549 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2553 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2556 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2557 at all for a long while.
2558 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2559 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2560 large chunks in the process.
2561 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2562 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2563 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2568 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2571 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2573 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2578 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2581 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2582 that don't always have the same files in them.
2583 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2584 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2585 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2589 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2593 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2594 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2595 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2596 updating 27 man pages.
2597 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2598 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2599 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2600 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2601 programs act on. (#25247)
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2605 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2609 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2610 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2611 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2612 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2613 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2614 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2619 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2626 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2633 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2636 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2640 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2646 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2649 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2650 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2651 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2652 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2653 package by accident.
2654 * Is version 1.0 next?
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2658 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2661 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2662 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2666 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2669 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2670 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2671 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2672 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2673 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2675 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2680 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2683 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2684 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2688 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2691 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2695 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2697 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2698 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2699 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2704 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2710 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2713 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2714 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2719 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2725 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2728 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2729 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2730 past week. Thanks, guys!
2732 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2733 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2734 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2735 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2736 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2737 would do in the same situation.
2738 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2739 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2741 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2743 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2744 permissions changed.
2745 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2746 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2747 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2748 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2749 files are treated identically.
2750 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2751 * Minor man page fixes.
2752 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2753 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2754 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2758 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2761 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2762 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2763 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2764 use -X multiple times, too.
2765 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2766 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2770 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2773 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2774 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2778 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2781 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2785 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2788 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2789 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2790 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2791 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2792 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2793 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2794 shape if you're starting a new package.
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2798 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2801 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2805 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2808 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2809 because of missing symlinks.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2813 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2819 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2821 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2822 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2823 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2824 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2825 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2826 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2828 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2829 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2833 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2835 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2836 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2837 to be changed after the fact :-)
2838 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2842 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2845 no version string after the -V.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2849 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2851 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2852 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2857 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2860 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2864 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2867 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2868 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2869 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2870 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2871 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2872 I always welcome corrections!
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2876 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2882 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2885 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2886 * Documented this new switch.
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2890 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2893 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2894 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2895 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2896 no packages use the old behavior.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2900 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2903 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2904 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2908 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2911 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2915 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2921 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2924 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2928 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2931 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2932 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2933 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2937 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2943 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2946 into the source package by accident.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2950 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2953 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2954 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2955 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2956 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2957 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2958 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2963 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2967 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2968 inspired to implement some of it.
2969 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2973 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2976 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2980 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2983 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2984 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2988 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2991 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2992 have done.) (#17598)
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2996 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3002 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3008 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3011 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3015 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3018 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3019 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3023 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3026 argument processor in perl.
3027 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3028 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3029 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3030 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3034 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3037 type directories. (#16933)
3038 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3039 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3040 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3041 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3042 are supported. (#16935)
3043 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3048 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3051 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3055 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3059 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3060 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3061 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3062 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3063 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3064 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3068 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3071 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3072 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3074 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3075 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3076 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3077 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3078 a given package, or -i or -a.
3079 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3080 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3081 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3082 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3083 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3084 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3085 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3086 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3087 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3089 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3090 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3091 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3095 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3098 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3099 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3104 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3107 does not have a section.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3111 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3114 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3115 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3116 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3120 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * Fixed typo #16215.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3126 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3129 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3130 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3131 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3132 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3133 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3138 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3141 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3142 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3143 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3148 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3154 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3160 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3163 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3164 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3165 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3166 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3167 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3168 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3172 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3178 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3181 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3185 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3188 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3189 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3190 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3194 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3197 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3201 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3203 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3207 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3210 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3214 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3217 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3221 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3227 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3230 postinst, postrm, etc.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3234 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3240 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3243 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3244 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3245 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3246 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3247 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3251 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3254 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3255 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3259 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3262 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3266 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3269 installing package files into.
3270 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3275 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3279 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3283 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3289 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3292 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3296 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3299 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3300 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3301 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3302 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3306 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3308 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3309 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3310 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3311 multiple binary packages.
3312 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3313 should rebuild them with this version.
3314 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3318 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3321 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3325 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3328 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3332 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3335 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3336 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3337 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3338 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3339 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3340 debian/README.debian.
3341 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3342 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3343 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3344 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3345 in a few situations.)
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3349 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3355 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3361 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3364 * Fixed several man pages.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3368 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3371 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3372 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3376 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3379 is ready for general use.
3380 * Added man pages for all commands.
3381 * Multiple binary package support.
3382 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3383 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3384 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3386 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3387 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3388 auto-installed as parameters.
3389 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3391 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3394 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3395 the package build directory it is to act on.
3396 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3397 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3398 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3402 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3404 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3405 ready to replace debstd.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400