1 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
7 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
9 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
13 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
15 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
16 it break hard links (see #188663).
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
20 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
22 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
23 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
27 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
33 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
37 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
38 debconf-mergetemplates
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
42 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
45 pod2man. Closes: #184013
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
49 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
52 * Typo, Closes: #183267
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
56 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
59 * Update debhelper(1).
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
63 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
65 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
66 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
67 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
68 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
69 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
70 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
74 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
77 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
78 the shell. Closes: #178524
79 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
83 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
85 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
86 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
90 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
93 undocumented.7 links anymore.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
97 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
99 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
100 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
101 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
102 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
103 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
108 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
111 files from installation.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
115 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
118 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
119 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
123 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
126 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
130 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
133 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
137 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
143 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
149 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
151 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
153 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
154 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
156 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
160 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
163 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
164 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
165 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
166 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
170 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
172 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
173 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
177 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
180 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
181 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
185 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
189 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
194 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
200 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
204 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
205 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
206 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
211 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
214 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
215 practice. Closes: #163303
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
219 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
225 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
232 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
234 * The "reverse hangover" release.
235 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
237 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
238 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
239 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
240 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
241 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
245 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
248 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
253 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
259 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
266 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
269 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
274 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
276 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
280 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
282 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
286 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
292 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
299 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
301 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
302 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
303 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
304 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
305 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
310 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Typo, Closes: #155323
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
316 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
323 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
326 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
327 * Removed dh_installxaw.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
331 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
333 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
334 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
335 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
336 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
337 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
338 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
342 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
345 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
347 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
352 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
354 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
355 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
359 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
362 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
363 right thing. Closes: #150644
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
367 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
370 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
374 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
376 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
381 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
383 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
384 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
385 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
390 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
396 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
399 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
403 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
406 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
407 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
412 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
415 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
419 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
425 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
428 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
429 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
433 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
435 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
439 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
441 * Removing perl warning message.
443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
445 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
447 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
448 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
449 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
450 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
451 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
452 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
453 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
454 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
455 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
459 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
461 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
465 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
467 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
472 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
475 debconf-mergetemplate.
476 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
477 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
481 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
483 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
484 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
485 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
486 dh_install, which ...
487 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
488 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
489 mess, as it uses debian/install.
490 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
491 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
492 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
493 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
494 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
495 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
496 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
497 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
498 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
499 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
500 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
502 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
503 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
504 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
505 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
506 course there's -X ..)
507 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
508 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
509 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
511 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
512 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
513 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
514 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
515 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
520 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
526 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Typo, Closes: #139176
529 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
533 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
539 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
545 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
551 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
557 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
560 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
561 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
562 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
563 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
565 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
566 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
570 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
576 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Typo, Closes: #132454
579 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
583 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
586 upset. Closes: #131322
588 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
590 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
593 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
594 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
595 line, as well as in debian/rules.
596 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
597 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
598 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
599 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
600 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
601 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
602 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
603 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
604 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
605 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
606 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
607 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
609 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
613 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
616 - Better indenting of generated code.
617 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
621 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
625 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
626 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
627 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
628 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
629 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
630 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
631 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
635 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
637 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
638 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
642 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
645 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
646 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
647 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
648 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
649 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
650 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
651 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
652 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
653 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
654 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
655 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
656 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
657 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
658 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
659 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
664 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
670 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
673 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
674 * fixed dh_testdir man page
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
678 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Typo, Closes: #122679
681 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
682 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
686 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
692 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
695 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
696 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
697 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
698 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
699 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
704 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
706 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
710 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
712 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
713 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
717 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
720 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
725 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Typo, Closes: #114135
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
731 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
734 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
738 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
740 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
744 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
746 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
748 Also some indentation fixes.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
752 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
754 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
755 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
756 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
757 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
758 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
759 Closes: #106514, #85520
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
763 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Typo, Closes: #104405
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
769 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
771 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
775 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
777 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
781 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
787 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
793 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
795 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
796 change it in debhelper v4..
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
800 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
806 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
809 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
813 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
816 is not essential. Closes: #100430
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
820 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
826 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
829 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
830 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
831 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
832 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
833 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
834 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
835 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
836 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
837 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
838 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
839 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
840 prefixed with ".debhelper")
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
844 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
847 look just like shared libs, but are not.
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
851 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
858 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
860 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
861 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
862 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
863 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
864 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
865 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
866 program those options go to. So, for example,
867 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
868 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
869 something complex. Closes: #89311
870 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
874 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
877 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
878 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
879 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
883 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
885 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
886 through loop. Closes: #98598
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
890 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Missing semi-colon.
893 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
894 this (dh_* should be called, really).
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
898 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
901 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
902 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
903 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
907 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
910 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
911 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
915 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
918 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
922 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
925 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
926 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
930 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
933 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
934 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
935 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
939 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
942 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
943 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
944 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
948 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
951 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
955 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
961 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Typo, Closes: #92407
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
967 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
969 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
973 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
975 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
979 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
982 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
986 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
989 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
990 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
991 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
992 followed. Closes: #85483
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
996 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
998 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
999 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1000 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1004 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1007 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1008 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1009 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1010 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1011 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1012 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1013 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1014 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1015 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1016 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1017 Closes: #88464, #77743
1018 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1019 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1020 us to deal with that gracefully.
1021 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1023 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1024 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1025 a while, Closes: #51225
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1029 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1035 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1038 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1042 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1046 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1051 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1054 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1055 don't make packlist files.
1056 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1057 debhelper coding standards.
1058 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1059 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1063 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1066 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1070 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1073 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1074 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1075 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1076 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1077 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1078 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1079 but is mildly deprecated.
1080 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1081 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1082 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1083 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1084 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1085 switching to statoverrides..
1086 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1087 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1088 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1089 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1090 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1091 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1093 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1094 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1095 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1096 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1097 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1098 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1099 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1100 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1101 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1103 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1104 variable names, pod man pages).
1105 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1106 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1107 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1108 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1109 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1110 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1111 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1115 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1121 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1128 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1131 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1135 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1137 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1138 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1139 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1143 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1145 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1146 they were previously ignored.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1150 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1152 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1153 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1157 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1159 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1160 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1161 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1165 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1167 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1171 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1173 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1174 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1178 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1180 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1181 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1182 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1183 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1184 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1185 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1186 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1187 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1188 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1189 it is an obsolete program.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1193 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1195 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1199 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1203 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1205 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1207 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1209 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1211 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1213 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1215 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1219 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1225 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * typo: Closes, #78567
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1231 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1237 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1243 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1246 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1247 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1248 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1249 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1250 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1254 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1257 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1262 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1265 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1266 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1267 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1268 backwards-compatability.
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1272 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1275 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1276 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1277 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1278 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1279 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1280 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1282 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1283 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1284 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1286 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1288 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1289 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1290 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1291 should now be raised to severity important..
1292 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1293 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1297 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1300 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1305 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1311 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1317 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1323 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1330 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1333 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1334 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1335 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1336 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1340 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1346 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1349 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1350 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1351 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1352 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1353 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1354 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1359 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1362 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1366 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1372 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1375 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1380 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1383 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1384 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1385 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1386 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1390 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1394 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1397 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1400 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1401 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1404 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1406 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1407 the TODO entry about it.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1411 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1418 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1421 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1422 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1426 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1429 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1430 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1431 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1432 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1436 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1442 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1449 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1452 (this appears to be logal).
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1456 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1459 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1460 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1461 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1462 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1466 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1472 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1475 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1476 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1477 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1478 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1482 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1488 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1491 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1495 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1502 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1505 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1506 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1507 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1512 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1519 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1525 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1528 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1529 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1530 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1531 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1532 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1533 notice until v2 is complete.
1534 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1535 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1536 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1537 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1538 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1539 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1541 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1542 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1543 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1544 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1548 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1554 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1561 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1564 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1568 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1575 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1578 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1579 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1580 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1581 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1586 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1589 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1590 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1591 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1596 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1599 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1600 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1604 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1607 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1611 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1614 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1618 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1625 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1628 depend on the build and install targets.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1632 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1635 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1639 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1646 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1652 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1658 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1661 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1662 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1663 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1664 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1665 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1666 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1668 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1669 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1670 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1671 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1672 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1673 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1674 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1678 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1684 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1690 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1693 right place. Closes: #55065
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1697 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1704 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1707 * Copyright date updates.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1711 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1714 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1719 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1725 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1732 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1738 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1744 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1750 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1753 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1754 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1755 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1756 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1757 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1758 bits until all files have been registered.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1762 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_installmanpages:
1765 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1766 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1767 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1768 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1769 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1770 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1771 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1772 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1773 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1774 otherwise change the result at all.
1776 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1777 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1778 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1779 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1780 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1785 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1791 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1794 act on files that don't exist.
1795 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1796 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1797 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1799 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1800 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1801 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1802 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1806 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1812 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1818 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1821 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1825 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1828 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1830 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1831 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1832 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1836 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1839 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1840 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1841 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1842 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1843 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1844 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1845 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1847 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1849 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1853 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1860 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1866 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1872 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1875 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1879 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1885 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1891 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1894 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1895 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1896 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1897 I made some changes, though:
1898 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1899 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1900 that is a clear violation of policy.
1901 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1902 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1903 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1904 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1905 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1906 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1907 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1908 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1909 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1911 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1915 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1921 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1924 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1928 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1931 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1932 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1937 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1943 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1950 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1953 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1954 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1955 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1956 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1957 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1958 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1959 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1963 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1969 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1973 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1974 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1978 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1980 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1984 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1987 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1991 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1994 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1995 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1999 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2001 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2006 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2010 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2014 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2017 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2018 for the dependancies to be generated.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2022 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2025 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2029 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2032 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2033 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2034 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2039 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2042 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2043 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2047 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2053 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2059 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2062 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2066 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2072 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2075 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2076 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2077 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2078 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2079 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2080 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2081 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2082 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2083 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2084 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2085 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2086 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2090 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2093 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2094 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2096 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2097 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2098 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2099 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2100 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2101 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2103 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2104 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2108 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2111 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2115 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2122 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2125 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2130 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2133 for building debhelper.
2134 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2138 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2145 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2148 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2152 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2155 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2156 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2157 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2158 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2159 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2160 it's always available.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2164 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2167 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2168 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2169 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2173 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2176 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2177 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2181 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2187 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2190 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2194 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2200 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2203 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2204 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2205 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2209 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2212 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2217 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2220 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2221 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2223 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2224 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2228 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2230 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2234 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2240 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2243 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2247 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2250 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2251 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2253 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2257 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2260 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2261 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2262 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2266 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2269 things if CDPATH is set.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2273 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2279 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2282 seems to make sense for the transition.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2286 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2289 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2294 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2297 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2298 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2302 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2305 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2309 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2312 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2313 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2314 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2315 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2319 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2325 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2328 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2329 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2330 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2331 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2332 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2333 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2334 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2335 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2336 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2337 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2342 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2345 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2346 * README: mention doc/v2
2347 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2348 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2352 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2354 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2355 be using this script RSN.
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2359 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2362 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2363 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2364 more than 1 init script.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2368 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2371 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2375 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * Changed perl version detection.
2378 * Changed call to find.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2382 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2385 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2387 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2392 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * Really include dh_installpam.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2398 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2401 * Wrote man page for same.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2405 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2408 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2409 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2414 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2421 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2424 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2425 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2426 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2427 x bit was being set!
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2431 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2434 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2435 well. (Closes: 38900)
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2439 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2442 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2443 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2447 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2453 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2460 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2466 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2469 help from Julian Gilbey.
2470 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2471 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2472 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2473 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2474 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2475 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2476 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2481 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2487 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2494 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2500 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2506 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2509 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2513 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2516 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2520 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2523 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2527 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2533 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2536 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2540 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2546 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2552 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2555 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2556 may be deleted. (#35845)
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2560 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * Various man page enhancements.
2563 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2568 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2571 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2572 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2576 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2579 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2580 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2581 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2583 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2584 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2589 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2591 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2595 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Another very minor typo fix.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2601 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Very minor typo fix.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2607 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2610 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2611 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2615 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2621 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2624 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2625 variables properly (#34850).
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2629 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2635 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2638 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2639 (automatically generated by build process).
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2643 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2645 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2649 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2652 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2653 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2655 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2659 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2662 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2666 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * README: minor typo fix.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2672 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2675 leave it at that. :-)
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2679 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2685 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2691 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2694 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2695 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2696 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2700 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2703 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2707 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2710 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2714 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2717 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2718 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2719 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2720 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2724 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2727 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2728 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2729 Craig Small for spotting this.
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2733 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2736 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2737 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2741 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2747 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2750 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2754 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2756 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2757 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2758 working on the last version of debhelper.
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2762 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2765 being made. (#23255)
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2769 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2775 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2778 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2782 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2785 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2786 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2787 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2788 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2792 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2795 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2796 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2797 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2798 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2800 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2801 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2803 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2808 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2814 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2820 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2823 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2824 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2825 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2826 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2827 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2828 suidregister actually supports it.
2829 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2830 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2834 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2841 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2844 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2845 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2846 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2847 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2848 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2849 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2850 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2854 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2856 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2857 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2861 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2864 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2865 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2866 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2867 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2871 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2874 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2876 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2877 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2878 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2879 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2880 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2881 effect, either. (#30118)
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2885 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2891 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2894 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2895 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2899 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2905 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2908 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2909 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2910 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2911 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2915 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2918 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2919 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2923 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2929 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2932 packages, painlessly.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2936 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2942 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2948 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2954 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * The perl conversion is complete.
2958 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2960 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2961 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2962 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2967 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2970 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2971 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2972 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2976 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2979 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2981 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2983 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2984 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2988 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2991 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2992 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2996 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3002 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3005 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3006 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3007 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3008 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3009 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3013 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3016 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3017 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3018 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3019 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3023 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3026 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3030 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3033 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3034 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3035 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3036 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3037 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3038 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3039 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3040 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3044 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3050 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3053 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3054 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3055 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3060 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3063 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3067 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3070 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3074 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3077 sections of shared libraries.
3078 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3079 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3080 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3081 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3082 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3083 things you don't want them to.
3084 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3085 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3089 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3092 shared libraries. (#26414)
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3096 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3098 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3099 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3100 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3101 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3105 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3109 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3111 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3112 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3113 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3114 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3115 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3119 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3122 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3126 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3129 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3130 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3135 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3138 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3142 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3145 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3146 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3147 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3148 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3149 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3151 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3152 remove debian/files properly.
3153 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3154 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3155 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3156 * Removed bogus menu file.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3160 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3163 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3167 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3170 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3171 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3172 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3173 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3174 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3175 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3179 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3182 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3183 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3184 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3185 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3189 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3196 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3199 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3200 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3202 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3203 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3204 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3205 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3206 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3207 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3211 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3214 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3215 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3216 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3217 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3218 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3219 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3220 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3221 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3222 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3223 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3224 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3225 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3226 passed any switches.
3227 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3231 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3234 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3235 at all for a long while.
3236 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3237 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3238 large chunks in the process.
3239 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3240 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3241 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3246 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3249 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3251 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3256 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3259 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3260 that don't always have the same files in them.
3261 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3262 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3263 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3267 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3271 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3272 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3273 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3274 updating 27 man pages.
3275 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3276 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3277 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3278 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3279 programs act on. (#25247)
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3283 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3287 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3288 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3289 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3290 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3291 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3292 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3297 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3304 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3311 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3314 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3318 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3324 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3327 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3328 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3329 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3330 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3331 package by accident.
3332 * Is version 1.0 next?
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3336 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3339 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3340 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3344 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3347 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3348 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3349 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3350 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3351 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3353 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3358 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3361 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3362 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3366 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3369 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3373 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3376 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3377 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3382 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3388 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3391 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3392 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3397 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3403 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3406 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3407 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3408 past week. Thanks, guys!
3410 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3411 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3412 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3413 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3414 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3415 would do in the same situation.
3416 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3417 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3419 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3421 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3422 permissions changed.
3423 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3424 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3425 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3426 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3427 files are treated identically.
3428 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3429 * Minor man page fixes.
3430 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3431 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3432 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3436 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3438 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3439 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3440 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3441 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3442 use -X multiple times, too.
3443 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3444 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3448 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3451 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3452 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3456 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3459 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3463 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3466 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3467 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3468 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3469 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3470 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3471 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3472 shape if you're starting a new package.
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3476 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3479 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3483 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3486 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3487 because of missing symlinks.
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3491 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3497 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3500 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3501 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3502 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3503 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3504 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3506 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3507 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3511 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3513 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3514 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3515 to be changed after the fact :-)
3516 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3520 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3522 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3523 no version string after the -V.
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3527 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3529 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3530 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3535 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3538 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3542 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3545 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3546 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3547 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3548 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3549 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3550 I always welcome corrections!
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3554 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3560 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3563 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3564 * Documented this new switch.
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3568 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3571 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3572 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3573 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3574 no packages use the old behavior.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3578 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3581 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3582 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3586 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3589 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3593 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3599 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3602 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3606 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3609 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3610 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3611 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3615 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3621 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3624 into the source package by accident.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3628 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3631 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3632 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3633 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3634 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3635 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3636 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3641 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3645 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3646 inspired to implement some of it.
3647 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3651 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3654 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3658 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3661 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3662 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3666 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3669 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3670 have done.) (#17598)
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3674 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3680 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3686 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3689 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3693 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3696 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3697 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3701 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3704 argument processor in perl.
3705 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3706 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3707 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3708 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3712 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3715 type directories. (#16933)
3716 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3717 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3718 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3719 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3720 are supported. (#16935)
3721 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3726 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3729 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3733 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3737 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3738 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3739 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3740 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3741 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3742 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3746 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3748 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3749 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3750 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3752 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3753 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3754 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3755 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3756 a given package, or -i or -a.
3757 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3758 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3759 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3760 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3761 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3762 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3763 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3764 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3765 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3767 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3768 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3769 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3773 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3776 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3777 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3782 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3785 does not have a section.
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3789 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3792 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3793 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3794 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3798 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3800 * Fixed typo #16215.
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3804 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3807 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3808 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3809 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3810 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3811 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3816 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3819 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3820 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3821 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3826 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3832 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3838 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3841 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3842 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3843 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3844 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3845 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3846 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3850 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3856 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3859 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3863 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3866 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3867 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3868 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3872 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3875 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3879 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3885 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3888 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3892 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3895 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3899 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3905 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3908 postinst, postrm, etc.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3912 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3918 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3921 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3922 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3923 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3924 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3925 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3929 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3932 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3933 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3937 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3940 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3944 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3947 installing package files into.
3948 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3953 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3957 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3961 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3967 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3970 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3974 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3977 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3978 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3979 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3980 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3984 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3986 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3987 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3988 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3989 multiple binary packages.
3990 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3991 should rebuild them with this version.
3992 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3996 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3999 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4003 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4006 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4010 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4013 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4014 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4015 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4016 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4017 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4018 debian/README.debian.
4019 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4020 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4021 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4022 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4023 in a few situations.)
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4027 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4033 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4039 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4042 * Fixed several man pages.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4046 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4049 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4050 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4054 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4056 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4057 is ready for general use.
4058 * Added man pages for all commands.
4059 * Multiple binary package support.
4060 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4061 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4062 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4064 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4065 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4066 auto-installed as parameters.
4067 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4069 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4072 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4073 the package build directory it is to act on.
4074 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4075 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4076 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4080 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4082 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4083 ready to replace debstd.
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400