1 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
7 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
10 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
11 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
15 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
21 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Removing perl warning message.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
27 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
30 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
31 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
32 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
33 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
34 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
35 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
36 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
37 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
41 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
47 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
54 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
57 debconf-mergetemplate.
58 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
59 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
63 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
66 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
67 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
69 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
70 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
71 mess, as it uses debian/install.
72 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
73 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
74 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
75 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
76 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
77 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
78 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
79 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
80 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
81 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
82 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
84 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
85 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
86 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
87 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
89 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
90 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
91 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
93 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
94 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
95 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
96 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
97 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
102 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
108 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Typo, Closes: #139176
111 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
115 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
121 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
127 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
129 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
133 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
135 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
139 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
141 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
142 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
143 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
144 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
145 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
147 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
148 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
152 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
158 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Typo, Closes: #132454
161 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
165 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
167 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
168 upset. Closes: #131322
170 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
172 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
175 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
176 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
177 line, as well as in debian/rules.
178 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
179 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
180 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
181 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
182 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
183 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
184 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
185 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
186 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
187 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
188 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
189 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
191 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
195 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
198 - Better indenting of generated code.
199 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
203 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
205 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
207 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
208 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
209 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
210 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
211 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
212 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
213 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
217 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
220 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
224 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
227 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
228 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
229 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
230 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
231 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
232 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
233 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
234 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
235 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
236 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
237 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
238 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
239 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
240 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
241 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
246 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
252 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
254 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
255 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
256 * fixed dh_testdir man page
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
260 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Typo, Closes: #122679
263 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
264 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
268 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
274 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
276 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
277 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
278 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
279 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
280 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
281 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
286 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
288 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
292 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
295 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
299 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
301 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
302 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
307 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Typo, Closes: #114135
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
313 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
315 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
316 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
320 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
326 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
330 Also some indentation fixes.
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
334 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
336 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
337 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
338 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
339 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
340 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
341 Closes: #106514, #85520
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
345 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Typo, Closes: #104405
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
351 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
357 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
359 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
363 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
369 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
375 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
377 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
378 change it in debhelper v4..
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
382 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
388 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
390 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
391 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
395 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
397 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
398 is not essential. Closes: #100430
400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
402 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
404 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
408 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
411 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
412 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
413 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
414 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
415 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
416 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
417 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
418 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
419 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
420 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
421 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
422 prefixed with ".debhelper")
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
426 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
429 look just like shared libs, but are not.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
433 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
440 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
443 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
444 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
445 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
446 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
447 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
448 program those options go to. So, for example,
449 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
450 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
451 something complex. Closes: #89311
452 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
456 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
459 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
460 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
461 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
465 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
467 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
468 through loop. Closes: #98598
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
472 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Missing semi-colon.
475 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
476 this (dh_* should be called, really).
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
480 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
483 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
484 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
485 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
489 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
491 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
492 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
493 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
497 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
499 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
500 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
504 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
507 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
508 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
512 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
515 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
516 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
517 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
521 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
524 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
525 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
526 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
530 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
533 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
537 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
539 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
543 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
545 * Typo, Closes: #92407
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
549 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
555 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
561 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
563 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
564 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
568 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
571 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
572 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
573 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
574 followed. Closes: #85483
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
578 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
580 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
581 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
582 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
586 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
589 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
590 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
591 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
592 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
593 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
594 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
595 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
596 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
597 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
598 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
599 Closes: #88464, #77743
600 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
601 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
602 us to deal with that gracefully.
603 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
605 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
606 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
607 a while, Closes: #51225
609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
611 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
617 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
619 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
620 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
624 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
628 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
633 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
636 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
637 don't make packlist files.
638 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
639 debhelper coding standards.
640 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
641 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
645 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
647 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
648 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
652 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
655 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
656 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
657 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
658 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
659 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
660 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
661 but is mildly deprecated.
662 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
663 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
664 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
665 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
666 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
667 switching to statoverrides..
668 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
669 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
670 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
671 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
672 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
673 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
675 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
676 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
677 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
678 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
679 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
680 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
681 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
682 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
683 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
685 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
686 variable names, pod man pages).
687 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
688 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
689 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
690 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
691 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
692 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
693 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
697 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
703 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
710 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
713 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
717 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
719 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
720 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
721 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
725 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
727 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
728 they were previously ignored.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
732 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
734 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
735 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
739 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
741 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
742 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
743 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
747 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
749 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
753 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
755 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
756 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
760 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
762 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
763 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
764 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
765 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
766 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
767 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
768 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
769 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
770 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
771 it is an obsolete program.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
775 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
777 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
781 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
785 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
787 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
791 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
793 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
795 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
797 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
801 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
807 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
809 * typo: Closes, #78567
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
813 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
819 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
825 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
827 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
828 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
829 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
830 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
831 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
832 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
836 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
839 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
844 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
847 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
848 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
849 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
850 backwards-compatability.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
854 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
856 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
857 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
858 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
859 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
860 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
861 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
862 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
864 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
865 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
866 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
868 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
870 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
871 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
872 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
873 should now be raised to severity important..
874 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
875 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
879 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
882 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
887 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
889 * Typo, Closes: #77441
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
893 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Completed the fix from the last version.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
899 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
905 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
907 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
912 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
914 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
915 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
916 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
917 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
918 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
922 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
928 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
931 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
932 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
933 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
934 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
935 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
936 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
941 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
944 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
948 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
950 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
954 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
957 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
962 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
965 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
966 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
967 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
968 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
972 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
974 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
976 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
979 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
982 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
983 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
986 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
988 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
989 the TODO entry about it.
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
993 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1000 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1003 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1004 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1008 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1011 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1012 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1013 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1014 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1018 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1024 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1031 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1034 (this appears to be logal).
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1038 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1041 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1042 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1043 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1044 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1048 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1054 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1057 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1058 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1059 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1060 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1064 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1070 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1073 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1077 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1084 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1087 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1088 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1089 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1094 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1101 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1107 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1110 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1111 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1112 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1113 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1114 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1115 notice until v2 is complete.
1116 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1117 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1118 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1119 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1120 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1121 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1123 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1124 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1125 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1126 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1130 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1136 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1143 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1146 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1150 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1157 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1160 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1161 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1162 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1163 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1168 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1171 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1172 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1173 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1178 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1181 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1182 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1186 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1189 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1193 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1196 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1200 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1207 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1210 depend on the build and install targets.
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1214 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1217 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1221 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1228 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1234 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1240 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1243 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1244 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1245 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1246 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1247 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1248 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1250 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1251 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1252 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1253 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1254 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1255 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1256 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1260 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1266 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1272 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1275 right place. Closes: #55065
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1279 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1286 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1289 * Copyright date updates.
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1293 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1296 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1301 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1307 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1314 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1320 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1326 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1332 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1335 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1336 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1337 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1338 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1339 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1340 bits until all files have been registered.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1344 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * dh_installmanpages:
1347 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1348 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1349 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1350 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1351 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1352 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1353 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1354 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1355 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1356 otherwise change the result at all.
1358 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1359 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1360 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1361 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1362 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1367 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1373 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1376 act on files that don't exist.
1377 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1378 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1379 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1381 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1382 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1383 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1384 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1388 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1394 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1400 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1403 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1407 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1410 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1412 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1413 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1414 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1418 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1421 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1422 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1423 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1424 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1425 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1426 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1427 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1429 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1431 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1435 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1442 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1448 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1454 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1457 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1461 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1467 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1473 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1476 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1477 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1478 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1479 I made some changes, though:
1480 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1481 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1482 that is a clear violation of policy.
1483 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1484 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1485 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1486 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1487 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1488 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1489 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1490 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1491 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1493 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1503 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1506 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1510 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1513 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1514 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1519 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1525 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1532 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1535 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1536 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1537 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1538 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1539 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1540 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1541 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1545 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1551 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1555 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1556 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1560 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1566 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1569 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1573 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1576 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1577 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1581 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1583 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1588 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1592 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1596 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1599 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1600 for the dependancies to be generated.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1604 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1607 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1611 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1614 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1615 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1616 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1621 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1624 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1625 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1629 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1635 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1641 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1644 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1648 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1654 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1657 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1658 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1659 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1660 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1661 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1662 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1663 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1664 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1665 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1666 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1667 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1668 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1672 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1675 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1676 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1678 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1679 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1680 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1681 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1682 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1683 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1685 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1686 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1690 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1693 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1697 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1704 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1707 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1712 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1715 for building debhelper.
1716 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1720 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1727 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1730 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1734 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1737 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1738 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1739 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1740 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1741 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1742 it's always available.
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1746 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1749 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1750 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1751 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1755 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1758 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1759 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1763 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1769 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1772 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1776 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1782 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1785 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1786 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1787 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1791 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1794 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1799 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1802 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1803 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1805 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1806 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1810 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1816 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1822 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1825 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1829 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1832 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1833 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1835 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1839 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1842 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1843 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1844 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1848 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1851 things if CDPATH is set.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1855 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1861 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1864 seems to make sense for the transition.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1868 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1871 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1876 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1879 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1880 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1884 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1887 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1891 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1894 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1895 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1896 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1897 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1901 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1907 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1910 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1911 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1912 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1913 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1914 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1915 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1916 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1917 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1918 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1919 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1924 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1927 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1928 * README: mention doc/v2
1929 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1930 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1934 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1936 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1937 be using this script RSN.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1941 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1944 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1945 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1946 more than 1 init script.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1950 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1953 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1957 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Changed perl version detection.
1960 * Changed call to find.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1964 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1967 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1969 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1974 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * Really include dh_installpam.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1980 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1983 * Wrote man page for same.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1987 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1990 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1991 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1996 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2003 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2006 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2007 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2008 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2009 x bit was being set!
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2013 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2016 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2017 well. (Closes: 38900)
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2021 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2024 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2025 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2029 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2035 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2042 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2048 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2051 help from Julian Gilbey.
2052 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2053 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2054 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2055 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2056 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2057 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2058 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2063 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2069 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2076 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2082 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2088 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2091 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2095 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2098 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2102 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2105 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2109 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2115 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2118 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2122 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2128 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2134 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2137 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2138 may be deleted. (#35845)
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2142 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * Various man page enhancements.
2145 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2150 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2153 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2154 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2158 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2161 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2162 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2163 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2165 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2166 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2171 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2177 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Another very minor typo fix.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2183 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Very minor typo fix.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2189 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2192 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2193 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2197 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2203 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2206 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2207 variables properly (#34850).
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2211 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2217 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2220 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2221 (automatically generated by build process).
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2225 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2227 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2231 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2234 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2235 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2237 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2241 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2244 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2248 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * README: minor typo fix.
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2254 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2257 leave it at that. :-)
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2261 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2267 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2273 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2276 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2277 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2278 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2282 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2285 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2289 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2292 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2296 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2299 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2300 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2301 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2302 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2306 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2309 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2310 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2311 Craig Small for spotting this.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2315 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2318 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2319 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2323 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2329 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2332 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2336 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2338 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2339 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2340 working on the last version of debhelper.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2344 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2347 being made. (#23255)
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2351 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2357 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2360 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2364 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2367 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2368 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2369 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2370 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2374 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2377 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2378 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2379 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2380 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2382 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2383 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2385 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2390 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2396 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2402 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2405 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2406 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2407 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2408 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2409 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2410 suidregister actually supports it.
2411 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2412 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2416 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2423 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2426 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2427 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2428 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2429 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2430 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2431 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2432 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2436 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2438 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2439 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2443 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2446 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2447 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2448 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2449 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2453 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2456 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2458 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2459 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2460 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2461 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2462 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2463 effect, either. (#30118)
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2467 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2473 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2476 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2477 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2481 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2487 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2490 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2491 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2492 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2493 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2497 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2499 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2500 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2501 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2505 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2511 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2514 packages, painlessly.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2518 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2524 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2530 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2536 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * The perl conversion is complete.
2540 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2542 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2543 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2544 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2549 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2552 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2553 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2554 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2558 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2561 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2563 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2565 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2566 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2570 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2573 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2574 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2578 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2584 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2587 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2588 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2589 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2590 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2591 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2595 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2598 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2599 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2600 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2601 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2605 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2608 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2612 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2615 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2616 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2617 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2618 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2619 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2620 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2621 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2622 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2626 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2632 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2635 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2636 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2637 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2642 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2645 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2649 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2652 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2656 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2659 sections of shared libraries.
2660 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2661 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2662 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2663 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2664 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2665 things you don't want them to.
2666 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2667 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2671 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2674 shared libraries. (#26414)
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2678 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2680 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2681 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2682 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2683 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2687 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2691 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2693 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2694 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2695 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2696 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2697 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2701 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2704 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2708 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2711 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2712 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2717 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2720 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2724 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2727 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2728 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2729 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2730 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2731 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2733 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2734 remove debian/files properly.
2735 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2736 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2737 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2738 * Removed bogus menu file.
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2742 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2745 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2749 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2752 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2753 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2754 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2755 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2756 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2757 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2761 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2764 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2765 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2766 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2767 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2771 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2778 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2781 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2782 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2784 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2785 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2786 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2787 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2788 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2789 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2793 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2796 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2797 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2798 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2799 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2800 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2801 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2802 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2803 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2804 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2805 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2806 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2807 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2808 passed any switches.
2809 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2813 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2816 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2817 at all for a long while.
2818 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2819 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2820 large chunks in the process.
2821 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2822 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2823 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2828 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2831 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2833 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2838 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2841 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2842 that don't always have the same files in them.
2843 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2844 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2845 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2849 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2853 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2854 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2855 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2856 updating 27 man pages.
2857 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2858 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2859 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2860 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2861 programs act on. (#25247)
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2865 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2869 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2870 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2871 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2872 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2873 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2874 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2879 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2886 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2893 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2896 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2900 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2906 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2909 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2910 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2911 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2912 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2913 package by accident.
2914 * Is version 1.0 next?
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2918 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2921 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2922 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2926 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2929 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2930 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2931 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2932 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2933 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2935 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2940 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2943 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2944 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2948 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2951 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2955 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2958 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2959 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2964 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2970 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2973 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2974 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2979 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2985 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2988 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2989 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2990 past week. Thanks, guys!
2992 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2993 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2994 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2995 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2996 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2997 would do in the same situation.
2998 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2999 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3001 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3003 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3004 permissions changed.
3005 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3006 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3007 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3008 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3009 files are treated identically.
3010 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3011 * Minor man page fixes.
3012 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3013 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3014 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3018 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3021 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3022 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3023 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3024 use -X multiple times, too.
3025 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3026 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3030 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3033 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3034 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3038 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3041 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3045 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3048 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3049 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3050 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3051 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3052 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3053 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3054 shape if you're starting a new package.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3058 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3061 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3065 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3068 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3069 because of missing symlinks.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3073 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3079 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3082 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3083 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3084 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3085 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3086 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3088 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3089 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3093 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3095 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3096 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3097 to be changed after the fact :-)
3098 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3102 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3104 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3105 no version string after the -V.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3109 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3111 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3112 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3117 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3120 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3124 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3127 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3128 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3129 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3130 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3131 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3132 I always welcome corrections!
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3136 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3142 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3145 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3146 * Documented this new switch.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3150 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3153 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3154 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3155 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3156 no packages use the old behavior.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3160 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3163 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3164 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3168 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3171 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3175 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3181 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3184 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3188 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3191 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3192 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3193 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3197 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3203 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3206 into the source package by accident.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3210 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3213 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3214 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3215 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3216 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3217 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3218 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3223 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3227 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3228 inspired to implement some of it.
3229 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3233 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3236 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3240 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3243 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3244 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3248 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3251 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3252 have done.) (#17598)
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3256 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3262 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3268 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3270 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3271 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3275 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3278 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3279 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3283 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3286 argument processor in perl.
3287 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3288 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3289 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3290 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3294 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3297 type directories. (#16933)
3298 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3299 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3300 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3301 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3302 are supported. (#16935)
3303 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3308 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3311 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3315 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3319 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3320 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3321 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3322 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3323 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3324 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3328 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3331 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3332 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3334 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3335 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3336 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3337 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3338 a given package, or -i or -a.
3339 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3340 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3341 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3342 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3343 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3344 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3345 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3346 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3347 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3349 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3350 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3351 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3355 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3358 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3359 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3364 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3367 does not have a section.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3371 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3374 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3375 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3376 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3380 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * Fixed typo #16215.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3386 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3389 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3390 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3391 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3392 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3393 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3398 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3401 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3402 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3403 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3408 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3414 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3420 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3423 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3424 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3425 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3426 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3427 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3428 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3432 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3438 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3441 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3445 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3447 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3448 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3449 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3450 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3454 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3457 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3461 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3467 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3470 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3474 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3477 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3481 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3487 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3490 postinst, postrm, etc.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3494 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3500 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3503 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3504 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3505 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3506 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3507 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3511 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3514 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3515 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3519 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3522 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3526 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3529 installing package files into.
3530 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3535 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3537 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3539 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3543 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3549 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3552 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3556 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3558 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3559 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3560 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3561 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3562 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3566 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3568 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3569 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3570 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3571 multiple binary packages.
3572 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3573 should rebuild them with this version.
3574 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3578 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3581 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3585 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3588 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3592 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3595 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3596 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3597 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3598 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3599 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3600 debian/README.debian.
3601 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3602 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3603 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3604 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3605 in a few situations.)
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3609 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3615 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3621 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3624 * Fixed several man pages.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3628 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3631 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3632 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3636 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3638 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3639 is ready for general use.
3640 * Added man pages for all commands.
3641 * Multiple binary package support.
3642 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3643 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3644 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3646 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3647 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3648 auto-installed as parameters.
3649 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3651 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3654 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3655 the package build directory it is to act on.
3656 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3657 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3658 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3662 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3664 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3665 ready to replace debstd.
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400