1 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
4 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
5 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
9 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
11 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
12 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
16 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
19 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
20 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
24 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
27 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
28 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
29 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
33 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
36 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
37 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
38 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
42 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
45 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
49 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
55 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Typo, Closes: #92407
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
61 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
63 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
67 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
73 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
76 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
80 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
83 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
84 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
85 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
86 followed. Closes: #85483
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
90 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
92 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
93 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
94 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
98 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
101 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
102 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
103 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
104 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
105 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
106 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
107 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
108 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
109 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
110 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
111 Closes: #88464, #77743
112 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
113 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
114 us to deal with that gracefully.
115 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
117 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
118 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
119 a while, Closes: #51225
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
123 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
129 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
132 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
136 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
140 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
145 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
148 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
149 don't make packlist files.
150 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
151 debhelper coding standards.
152 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
153 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
157 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
160 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
164 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
167 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
168 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
169 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
170 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
171 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
172 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
173 but is mildly deprecated.
174 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
175 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
176 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
177 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
178 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
179 switching to statoverrides..
180 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
181 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
182 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
183 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
184 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
185 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
187 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
188 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
189 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
190 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
191 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
192 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
193 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
194 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
195 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
197 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
198 variable names, pod man pages).
199 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
200 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
201 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
202 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
203 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
204 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
205 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
209 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
215 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
222 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
225 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
229 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
231 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
232 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
233 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
237 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
239 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
240 they were previously ignored.
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
244 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
246 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
247 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
251 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
253 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
254 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
255 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
259 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
261 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
265 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
267 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
268 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
272 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
274 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
275 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
276 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
277 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
278 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
279 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
280 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
281 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
282 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
283 it is an obsolete program.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
287 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
289 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
293 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
297 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
299 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
303 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
305 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
307 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
309 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
313 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
319 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
321 * typo: Closes, #78567
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
325 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
331 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
333 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
337 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
339 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
340 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
341 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
342 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
343 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
344 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
348 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
351 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
356 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
359 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
360 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
361 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
362 backwards-compatability.
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
366 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
368 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
369 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
370 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
371 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
372 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
373 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
374 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
376 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
377 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
378 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
380 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
382 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
383 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
384 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
385 should now be raised to severity important..
386 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
387 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
391 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
394 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
399 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
401 * Typo, Closes: #77441
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
405 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Completed the fix from the last version.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
411 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
417 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
419 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
424 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
426 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
427 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
428 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
429 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
430 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
434 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
440 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
442 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
443 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
444 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
445 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
446 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
447 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
448 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
453 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
456 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
460 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
466 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
469 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
474 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
476 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
477 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
478 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
479 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
480 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
484 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
486 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
488 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
491 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
494 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
495 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
498 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
500 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
501 the TODO entry about it.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
505 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
507 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
512 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
515 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
516 prevent that. Closes: #73052
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
520 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Typo, Closes: #72932
523 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
524 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
525 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
526 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
530 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
536 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
543 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
546 (this appears to be logal).
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
550 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
553 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
554 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
555 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
556 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
560 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
566 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
568 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
569 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
570 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
571 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
572 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
576 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
582 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
585 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
589 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
596 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
599 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
600 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
601 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
606 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
613 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
619 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
621 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
622 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
623 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
624 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
625 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
626 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
627 notice until v2 is complete.
628 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
629 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
630 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
631 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
632 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
633 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
635 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
636 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
637 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
638 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
642 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
648 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
650 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
655 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
658 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
662 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
669 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
671 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
672 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
673 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
674 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
675 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
680 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
683 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
684 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
685 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
690 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
693 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
694 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
698 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
701 just skip files that end in -\d+.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
705 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
708 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
712 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
719 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
721 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
722 depend on the build and install targets.
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
726 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
729 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
733 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
740 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
746 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
752 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
755 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
756 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
757 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
758 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
759 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
760 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
762 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
763 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
764 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
765 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
766 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
767 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
768 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
772 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
778 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
784 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
787 right place. Closes: #55065
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
791 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
793 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
798 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
800 * Make all examples rules files executable.
801 * Copyright date updates.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
805 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
807 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
808 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
813 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
819 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
826 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
832 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
838 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
840 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
844 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
847 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
848 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
849 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
850 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
851 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
852 bits until all files have been registered.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
856 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
858 * dh_installmanpages:
859 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
860 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
861 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
862 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
863 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
864 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
865 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
866 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
867 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
868 otherwise change the result at all.
870 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
871 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
872 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
873 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
874 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
879 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
885 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
888 act on files that don't exist.
889 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
890 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
891 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
893 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
894 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
895 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
896 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
900 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
906 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
912 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
915 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
919 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
921 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
922 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
924 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
925 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
926 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
930 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
933 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
934 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
935 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
936 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
937 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
938 does not compress. Closes: #41733
939 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
941 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
943 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
947 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
954 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
960 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
966 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
969 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
973 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
979 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
985 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
988 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
989 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
990 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
991 I made some changes, though:
992 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
993 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
994 that is a clear violation of policy.
995 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
996 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
997 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
998 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
999 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1000 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1001 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1002 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1003 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1005 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1009 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1015 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1018 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1022 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1025 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1026 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1031 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1037 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1044 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1047 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1048 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1049 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1050 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1051 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1052 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1053 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1057 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1063 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1067 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1068 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1072 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1078 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1081 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1085 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1088 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1089 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1093 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1095 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1100 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1104 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1108 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1111 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1112 for the dependancies to be generated.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1116 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1119 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1123 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1126 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1127 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1128 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1133 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1136 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1137 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1141 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1147 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1153 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1156 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1160 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1166 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1169 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1170 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1171 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1172 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1173 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1174 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1175 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1176 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1177 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1178 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1179 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1180 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1184 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1187 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1188 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1190 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1191 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1192 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1193 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1194 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1195 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1197 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1198 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1202 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1205 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1209 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1219 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1224 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1227 for building debhelper.
1228 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1232 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1239 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1242 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1246 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1249 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1250 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1251 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1252 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1253 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1254 it's always available.
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1258 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1261 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1262 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1263 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1267 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1270 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1271 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1275 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1281 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1284 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1288 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1294 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1297 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1298 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1299 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1303 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1306 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1311 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1314 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1315 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1317 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1318 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1322 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1328 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1334 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1337 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1341 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1344 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1345 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1347 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1351 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1354 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1355 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1356 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1360 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1363 things if CDPATH is set.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1367 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1373 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1376 seems to make sense for the transition.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1380 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1383 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1388 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1391 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1392 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1396 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1399 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1403 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1406 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1407 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1408 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1409 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1413 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1419 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1422 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1423 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1424 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1425 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1426 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1427 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1428 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1429 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1430 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1431 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1436 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1439 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1440 * README: mention doc/v2
1441 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1442 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1446 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1448 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1449 be using this script RSN.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1453 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1456 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1457 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1458 more than 1 init script.
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1462 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1465 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1469 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Changed perl version detection.
1472 * Changed call to find.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1476 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1479 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1481 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1486 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Really include dh_installpam.
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1492 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1495 * Wrote man page for same.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1499 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1502 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1503 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1508 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1515 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1518 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1519 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1520 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1521 x bit was being set!
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1525 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1528 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1529 well. (Closes: 38900)
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1533 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1536 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1537 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1541 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1547 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1554 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1560 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1563 help from Julian Gilbey.
1564 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1565 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1566 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1567 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1568 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1569 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1570 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1575 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1581 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1588 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1594 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1600 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1603 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1607 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1610 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1614 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1617 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1621 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1627 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1630 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1634 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1640 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1646 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1649 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1650 may be deleted. (#35845)
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1654 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Various man page enhancements.
1657 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1662 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1665 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1666 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1670 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1673 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1674 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1675 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1677 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1678 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1683 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1689 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Another very minor typo fix.
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1695 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Very minor typo fix.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1701 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1704 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1705 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1709 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1715 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1718 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1719 variables properly (#34850).
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1723 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1729 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1732 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1733 (automatically generated by build process).
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1737 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1739 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1743 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1746 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1747 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1749 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1753 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1756 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1760 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * README: minor typo fix.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1766 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1769 leave it at that. :-)
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1773 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1779 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1785 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1788 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1789 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1790 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1794 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1797 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1801 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1804 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1808 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1811 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1812 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1813 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1814 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1818 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1821 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1822 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1823 Craig Small for spotting this.
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1827 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1830 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1831 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1835 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1841 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1844 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1848 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1850 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1851 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1852 working on the last version of debhelper.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1856 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1859 being made. (#23255)
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1863 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1869 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1872 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1876 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1879 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1880 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1881 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1882 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1886 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1889 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1890 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1891 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1892 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1894 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1895 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1897 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1902 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1908 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1914 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1917 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1918 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1919 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1920 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1921 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1922 suidregister actually supports it.
1923 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1924 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1928 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1935 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1938 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1939 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1940 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1941 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1942 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1943 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1944 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1948 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1950 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1951 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1955 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1958 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1959 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1960 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1961 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1965 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1968 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1970 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1971 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1972 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1973 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1974 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1975 effect, either. (#30118)
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1979 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
1985 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
1988 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
1989 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
1993 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Spelling and typo fixes.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
1999 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2002 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2003 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2004 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2005 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2009 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2012 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2013 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2017 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2023 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2026 packages, painlessly.
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2030 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2036 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2042 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2048 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * The perl conversion is complete.
2052 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2054 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2055 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2056 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2061 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2064 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2065 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2066 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2070 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2073 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2075 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2077 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2078 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2082 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2085 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2086 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2090 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2096 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2099 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2100 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2101 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2102 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2103 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2107 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2110 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2111 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2112 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2113 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2117 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2120 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2124 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2127 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2128 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2129 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2130 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2131 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2132 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2133 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2134 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2138 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2144 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2147 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2148 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2149 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2154 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2157 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2161 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2164 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2168 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2171 sections of shared libraries.
2172 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2173 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2174 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2175 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2176 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2177 things you don't want them to.
2178 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2179 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2183 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2186 shared libraries. (#26414)
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2190 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2192 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2193 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2194 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2195 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2199 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2203 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2205 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2206 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2207 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2208 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2209 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2213 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2216 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2220 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2223 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2224 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2229 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2232 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2236 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2239 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2240 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2241 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2242 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2243 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2245 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2246 remove debian/files properly.
2247 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2248 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2249 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2250 * Removed bogus menu file.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2254 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2257 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2261 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2264 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2265 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2266 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2267 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2268 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2269 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2273 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2276 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2277 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2278 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2279 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2283 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2290 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2293 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2294 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2296 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2297 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2298 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2299 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2300 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2301 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2305 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2308 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2309 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2310 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2311 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2312 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2313 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2314 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2315 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2316 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2317 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2318 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2319 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2320 passed any switches.
2321 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2325 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2328 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2329 at all for a long while.
2330 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2331 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2332 large chunks in the process.
2333 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2334 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2335 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2340 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2343 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2345 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2350 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2353 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2354 that don't always have the same files in them.
2355 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2356 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2357 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2361 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2365 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2366 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2367 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2368 updating 27 man pages.
2369 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2370 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2371 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2372 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2373 programs act on. (#25247)
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2377 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2381 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2382 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2383 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2384 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2385 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2386 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2391 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2398 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2405 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2408 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2412 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2418 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2421 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2422 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2423 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2424 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2425 package by accident.
2426 * Is version 1.0 next?
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2430 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2433 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2434 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2438 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2441 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2442 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2443 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2444 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2445 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2447 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2452 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2455 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2456 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2460 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2463 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2467 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2470 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2471 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2476 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2482 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2485 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2486 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2491 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2497 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2500 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2501 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2502 past week. Thanks, guys!
2504 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2505 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2506 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2507 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2508 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2509 would do in the same situation.
2510 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2511 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2513 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2515 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2516 permissions changed.
2517 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2518 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2519 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2520 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2521 files are treated identically.
2522 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2523 * Minor man page fixes.
2524 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2525 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2526 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2530 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2533 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2534 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2535 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2536 use -X multiple times, too.
2537 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2538 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2542 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2545 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2546 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2550 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2553 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2557 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2560 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2561 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2562 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2563 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2564 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2565 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2566 shape if you're starting a new package.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2570 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2573 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2577 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2580 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2581 because of missing symlinks.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2585 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2591 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2594 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2595 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2596 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2597 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2598 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2600 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2601 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2605 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2607 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2608 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2609 to be changed after the fact :-)
2610 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2614 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2616 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2617 no version string after the -V.
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2621 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2623 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2624 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2629 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2632 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2636 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2639 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2640 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2641 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2642 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2643 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2644 I always welcome corrections!
2646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2648 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2650 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2654 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2657 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2658 * Documented this new switch.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2662 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2665 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2666 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2667 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2668 no packages use the old behavior.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2672 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2675 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2676 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2680 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2683 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2687 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2693 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2696 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2700 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2703 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2704 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2705 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2709 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2715 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2718 into the source package by accident.
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2722 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2725 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2726 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2727 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2728 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2729 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2730 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2735 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2739 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2740 inspired to implement some of it.
2741 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2745 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2748 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2752 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2755 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2756 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2760 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2763 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2764 have done.) (#17598)
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2768 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2774 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2780 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2783 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2787 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2790 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2791 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2795 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2798 argument processor in perl.
2799 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2800 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2801 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2802 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2806 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2809 type directories. (#16933)
2810 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2811 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2812 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2813 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2814 are supported. (#16935)
2815 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2820 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2823 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2827 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2831 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2832 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2833 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2834 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2835 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2836 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2840 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2843 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2844 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2846 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2847 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2848 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2849 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2850 a given package, or -i or -a.
2851 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2852 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2853 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2854 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2855 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2856 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2857 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2858 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2859 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2861 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2862 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2863 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2867 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2870 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2871 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2876 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2879 does not have a section.
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2883 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2886 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2887 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2888 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2892 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * Fixed typo #16215.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2898 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2901 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2902 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2903 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2904 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2905 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2910 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2913 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2914 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2915 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2920 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2926 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2932 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2935 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2936 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2937 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2938 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2939 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2940 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2944 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2950 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2953 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2957 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2960 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2961 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2962 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2966 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2969 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2973 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2979 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2982 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
2986 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
2989 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
2993 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
2999 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3002 postinst, postrm, etc.
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3006 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3012 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3015 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3016 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3017 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3018 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3019 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3023 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3026 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3027 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3031 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3034 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3038 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3041 installing package files into.
3042 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3047 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3051 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3055 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3061 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3064 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3068 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3071 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3072 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3073 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3074 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3078 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3080 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3081 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3082 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3083 multiple binary packages.
3084 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3085 should rebuild them with this version.
3086 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3090 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3093 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3097 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3099 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3100 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3104 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3107 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3108 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3109 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3110 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3111 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3112 debian/README.debian.
3113 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3114 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3115 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3116 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3117 in a few situations.)
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3121 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3127 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3133 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3136 * Fixed several man pages.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3140 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3143 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3144 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3148 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3151 is ready for general use.
3152 * Added man pages for all commands.
3153 * Multiple binary package support.
3154 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3155 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3156 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3158 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3159 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3160 auto-installed as parameters.
3161 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3163 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3166 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3167 the package build directory it is to act on.
3168 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3169 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3170 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3174 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3176 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3177 ready to replace debstd.
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400