1 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
7 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
14 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
16 * The "reverse hangover" release.
17 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
19 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
20 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
21 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
22 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
23 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
27 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
30 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
35 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
41 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
48 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
51 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
56 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
62 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
68 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
74 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
76 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
81 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
83 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
84 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
85 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
86 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
87 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
92 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Typo, Closes: #155323
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
98 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
105 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
108 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
109 * Removed dh_installxaw.
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
113 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
116 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
117 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
118 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
119 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
120 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
124 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
127 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
129 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
134 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
136 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
137 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
141 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
144 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
145 right thing. Closes: #150644
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
149 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
156 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
158 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
163 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
165 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
166 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
167 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
172 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
178 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
180 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
181 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
185 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
188 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
189 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
194 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
197 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
201 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
207 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
210 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
211 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
215 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
221 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
223 * Removing perl warning message.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
227 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
230 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
231 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
232 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
233 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
234 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
235 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
236 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
237 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
241 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
247 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
254 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
257 debconf-mergetemplate.
258 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
259 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
263 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
265 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
266 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
267 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
268 dh_install, which ...
269 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
270 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
271 mess, as it uses debian/install.
272 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
273 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
274 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
275 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
276 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
277 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
278 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
279 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
280 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
281 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
282 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
284 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
285 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
286 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
287 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
288 course there's -X ..)
289 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
290 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
291 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
293 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
294 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
295 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
296 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
297 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
302 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
308 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Typo, Closes: #139176
311 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
315 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
321 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
327 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
333 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
339 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
342 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
343 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
344 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
345 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
347 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
348 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
352 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
358 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
360 * Typo, Closes: #132454
361 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
365 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
367 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
368 upset. Closes: #131322
370 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
372 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
375 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
376 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
377 line, as well as in debian/rules.
378 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
379 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
380 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
381 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
382 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
383 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
384 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
385 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
386 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
387 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
388 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
389 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
391 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
395 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
397 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
398 - Better indenting of generated code.
399 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
403 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
407 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
408 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
409 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
410 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
411 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
412 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
413 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
417 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
420 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
424 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
426 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
427 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
428 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
429 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
430 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
431 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
432 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
433 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
434 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
435 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
436 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
437 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
438 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
439 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
440 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
441 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
446 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
452 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
455 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
456 * fixed dh_testdir man page
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
460 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Typo, Closes: #122679
463 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
464 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
468 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
474 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
476 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
477 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
478 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
479 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
480 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
481 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
486 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
488 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
492 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
495 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
499 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
501 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
502 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
507 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Typo, Closes: #114135
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
513 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
516 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
520 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
526 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
530 Also some indentation fixes.
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
534 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
537 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
538 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
539 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
540 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
541 Closes: #106514, #85520
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
545 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
547 * Typo, Closes: #104405
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
551 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
553 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
557 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
559 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
563 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
569 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
575 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
578 change it in debhelper v4..
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
582 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
588 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
591 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
595 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
598 is not essential. Closes: #100430
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
602 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
608 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
611 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
612 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
613 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
614 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
615 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
616 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
617 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
618 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
619 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
620 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
621 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
622 prefixed with ".debhelper")
624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
626 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
628 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
629 look just like shared libs, but are not.
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
633 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
640 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
642 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
643 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
644 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
645 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
646 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
647 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
648 program those options go to. So, for example,
649 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
650 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
651 something complex. Closes: #89311
652 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
656 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
659 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
660 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
661 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
665 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
667 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
668 through loop. Closes: #98598
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
672 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Missing semi-colon.
675 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
676 this (dh_* should be called, really).
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
680 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
683 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
684 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
685 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
689 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
691 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
692 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
693 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
697 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
700 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
704 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
707 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
708 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
712 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
715 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
716 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
717 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
721 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
723 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
724 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
725 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
726 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
730 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
733 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
737 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
743 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Typo, Closes: #92407
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
749 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
755 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
761 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
764 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
768 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
770 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
771 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
772 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
773 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
774 followed. Closes: #85483
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
778 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
780 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
781 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
782 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
786 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
789 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
790 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
791 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
792 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
793 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
794 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
795 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
796 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
797 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
798 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
799 Closes: #88464, #77743
800 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
801 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
802 us to deal with that gracefully.
803 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
805 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
806 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
807 a while, Closes: #51225
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
811 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
817 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
820 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
824 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
828 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
833 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
836 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
837 don't make packlist files.
838 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
839 debhelper coding standards.
840 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
841 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
845 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
847 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
848 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
852 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
854 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
855 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
856 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
857 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
858 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
859 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
860 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
861 but is mildly deprecated.
862 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
863 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
864 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
865 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
866 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
867 switching to statoverrides..
868 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
869 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
870 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
871 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
872 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
873 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
875 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
876 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
877 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
878 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
879 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
880 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
881 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
882 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
883 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
885 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
886 variable names, pod man pages).
887 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
888 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
889 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
890 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
891 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
892 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
893 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
897 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
903 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
905 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
910 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
913 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
917 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
919 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
920 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
921 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
925 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
927 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
928 they were previously ignored.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
932 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
934 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
935 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
939 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
941 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
942 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
943 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
947 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
949 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
953 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
955 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
956 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
960 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
962 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
963 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
964 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
965 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
966 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
967 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
968 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
969 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
970 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
971 it is an obsolete program.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
975 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
977 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
981 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
983 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
985 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
987 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
991 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
993 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
995 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
997 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1001 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1007 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * typo: Closes, #78567
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1013 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1019 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1025 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1028 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1029 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1030 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1031 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1032 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1036 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1039 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1044 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1047 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1048 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1049 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1050 backwards-compatability.
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1054 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1057 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1058 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1059 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1060 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1061 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1062 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1064 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1065 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1066 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1068 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1070 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1071 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1072 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1073 should now be raised to severity important..
1074 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1075 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1079 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1082 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1087 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1093 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1099 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1105 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1112 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1115 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1116 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1117 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1118 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1122 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1128 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1131 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1132 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1133 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1134 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1135 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1136 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1141 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1144 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1148 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1154 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1157 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1162 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1165 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1166 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1167 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1168 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1172 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1176 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1179 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1182 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1183 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1186 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1188 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1189 the TODO entry about it.
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1193 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1200 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1203 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1204 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1208 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1211 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1212 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1213 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1214 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1218 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1224 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1231 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1234 (this appears to be logal).
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1238 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1241 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1242 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1243 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1244 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1248 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1254 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1257 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1258 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1259 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1260 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1264 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1270 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1273 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1277 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1284 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1287 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1288 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1289 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1294 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1301 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1307 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1310 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1311 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1312 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1313 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1314 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1315 notice until v2 is complete.
1316 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1317 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1318 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1319 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1320 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1321 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1323 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1324 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1325 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1326 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1330 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1336 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1343 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1346 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1350 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1357 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1360 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1361 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1362 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1363 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1368 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1371 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1372 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1373 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1378 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1381 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1382 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1386 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1389 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1393 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1396 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1400 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1407 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1410 depend on the build and install targets.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1414 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1417 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1421 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1428 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1434 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1440 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1443 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1444 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1445 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1446 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1447 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1448 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1450 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1451 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1452 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1453 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1454 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1455 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1456 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1460 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1466 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1472 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1475 right place. Closes: #55065
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1479 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1486 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1489 * Copyright date updates.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1493 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1496 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1501 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1507 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1514 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1520 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1526 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1532 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1535 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1536 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1537 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1538 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1539 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1540 bits until all files have been registered.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1544 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_installmanpages:
1547 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1548 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1549 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1550 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1551 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1552 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1553 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1554 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1555 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1556 otherwise change the result at all.
1558 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1559 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1560 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1561 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1562 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1567 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1573 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1576 act on files that don't exist.
1577 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1578 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1579 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1581 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1582 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1583 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1584 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1588 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1594 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1600 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1603 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1607 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1610 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1612 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1613 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1614 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1618 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1621 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1622 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1623 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1624 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1625 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1626 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1627 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1629 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1631 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1635 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1642 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1648 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1654 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1657 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1661 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1667 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1673 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1676 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1677 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1678 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1679 I made some changes, though:
1680 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1681 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1682 that is a clear violation of policy.
1683 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1684 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1685 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1686 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1687 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1688 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1689 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1690 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1691 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1693 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1697 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1703 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1706 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1710 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1713 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1714 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1719 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1725 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1732 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1735 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1736 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1737 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1738 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1739 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1740 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1741 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1745 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1751 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1755 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1756 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1760 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1766 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1769 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1773 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1776 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1777 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1781 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1783 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1788 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1792 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1796 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1799 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1800 for the dependancies to be generated.
1802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1804 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1807 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1811 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1814 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1815 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1816 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1821 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1824 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1825 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1829 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1835 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1841 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1844 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1848 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1854 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1857 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1858 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1859 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1860 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1861 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1862 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1863 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1864 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1865 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1866 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1867 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1868 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1872 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1875 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1876 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1878 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1879 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1880 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1881 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1882 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1883 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1885 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1886 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1890 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1893 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1897 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1904 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1907 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1912 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1915 for building debhelper.
1916 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1920 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1927 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1929 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1930 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1934 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1937 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1938 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1939 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1940 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1941 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1942 it's always available.
1944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1946 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1948 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1949 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1950 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1951 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1955 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1958 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1959 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1963 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1969 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1972 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1976 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1982 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1985 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1986 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1987 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1991 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1994 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1999 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2002 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2003 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2005 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2006 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2010 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2016 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2022 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2025 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2029 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2032 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2033 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2035 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2039 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2042 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2043 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2044 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2048 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2051 things if CDPATH is set.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2055 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2061 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2064 seems to make sense for the transition.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2068 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2071 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2076 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2079 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2080 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2084 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2087 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2091 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2094 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2095 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2096 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2097 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2101 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2107 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2110 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2111 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2112 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2113 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2114 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2115 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2116 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2117 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2118 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2119 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2124 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2127 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2128 * README: mention doc/v2
2129 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2130 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2134 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2136 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2137 be using this script RSN.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2141 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2144 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2145 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2146 more than 1 init script.
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2150 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2153 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2157 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Changed perl version detection.
2160 * Changed call to find.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2164 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2167 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2169 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2174 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * Really include dh_installpam.
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2180 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2183 * Wrote man page for same.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2187 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2190 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2191 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2196 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2203 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2206 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2207 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2208 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2209 x bit was being set!
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2213 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2216 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2217 well. (Closes: 38900)
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2221 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2224 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2225 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2229 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2235 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2242 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2248 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2251 help from Julian Gilbey.
2252 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2253 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2254 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2255 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2256 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2257 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2258 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2263 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2269 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2276 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2282 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2288 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2291 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2295 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2298 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2302 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2305 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2309 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2315 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2318 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2322 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2328 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2334 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2337 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2338 may be deleted. (#35845)
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2342 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Various man page enhancements.
2345 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2350 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2353 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2354 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2358 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2361 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2362 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2363 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2365 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2366 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2371 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2377 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Another very minor typo fix.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2383 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * Very minor typo fix.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2389 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2392 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2393 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2397 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2403 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2406 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2407 variables properly (#34850).
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2411 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2417 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2420 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2421 (automatically generated by build process).
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2425 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2427 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2431 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2434 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2435 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2437 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2441 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2444 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2448 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * README: minor typo fix.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2454 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2457 leave it at that. :-)
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2461 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2467 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2473 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2476 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2477 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2478 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2482 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2485 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2489 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2492 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2496 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2499 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2500 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2501 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2502 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2506 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2509 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2510 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2511 Craig Small for spotting this.
2513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2515 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2517 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2518 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2519 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2523 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2529 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2532 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2536 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2538 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2539 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2540 working on the last version of debhelper.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2544 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2547 being made. (#23255)
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2551 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2557 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2560 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2564 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2567 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2568 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2569 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2570 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2574 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2577 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2578 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2579 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2580 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2582 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2583 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2585 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2590 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2596 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2602 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2605 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2606 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2607 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2608 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2609 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2610 suidregister actually supports it.
2611 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2612 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2616 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2623 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2626 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2627 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2628 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2629 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2630 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2631 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2632 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2636 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2638 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2639 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2643 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2646 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2647 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2648 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2649 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2653 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2656 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2658 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2659 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2660 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2661 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2662 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2663 effect, either. (#30118)
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2667 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2673 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2676 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2677 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2681 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2687 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2690 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2691 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2692 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2693 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2697 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2700 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2701 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2705 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2711 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2714 packages, painlessly.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2718 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2724 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2730 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2736 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * The perl conversion is complete.
2740 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2742 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2743 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2744 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2749 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2752 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2753 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2754 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2758 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2761 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2763 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2765 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2766 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2770 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2773 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2774 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2778 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2784 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2787 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2788 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2789 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2790 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2791 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2795 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2798 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2799 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2800 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2801 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2805 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2808 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2812 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2815 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2816 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2817 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2818 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2819 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2820 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2821 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2822 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2826 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2832 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2835 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2836 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2837 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2842 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2845 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2849 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2852 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2856 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2859 sections of shared libraries.
2860 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2861 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2862 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2863 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2864 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2865 things you don't want them to.
2866 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2867 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2871 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2874 shared libraries. (#26414)
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2878 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2880 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2881 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2882 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2883 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2887 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2891 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2893 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2894 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2895 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2896 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2897 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2901 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2904 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2908 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2911 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2912 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2917 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2920 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2924 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2927 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2928 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2929 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2930 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2931 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2933 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2934 remove debian/files properly.
2935 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2936 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2937 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2938 * Removed bogus menu file.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2942 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2945 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2949 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2952 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2953 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2954 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2955 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2956 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2957 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2961 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2964 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2965 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2966 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2967 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2971 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2978 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2981 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2982 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2984 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2985 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2986 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2987 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2988 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2989 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2993 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2996 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2997 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2998 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2999 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3000 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3001 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3002 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3003 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3004 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3005 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3006 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3007 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3008 passed any switches.
3009 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3013 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3016 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3017 at all for a long while.
3018 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3019 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3020 large chunks in the process.
3021 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3022 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3023 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3028 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3031 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3033 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3038 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3041 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3042 that don't always have the same files in them.
3043 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3044 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3045 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3049 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3053 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3054 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3055 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3056 updating 27 man pages.
3057 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3058 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3059 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3060 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3061 programs act on. (#25247)
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3065 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3069 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3070 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3071 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3072 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3073 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3074 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3079 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3086 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3093 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3096 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3100 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3106 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3109 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3110 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3111 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3112 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3113 package by accident.
3114 * Is version 1.0 next?
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3118 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3121 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3122 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3126 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3129 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3130 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3131 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3132 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3133 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3135 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3140 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3143 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3144 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3148 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3151 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3155 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3158 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3159 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3164 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3170 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3173 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3174 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3179 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3185 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3188 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3189 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3190 past week. Thanks, guys!
3192 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3193 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3194 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3195 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3196 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3197 would do in the same situation.
3198 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3199 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3201 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3203 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3204 permissions changed.
3205 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3206 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3207 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3208 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3209 files are treated identically.
3210 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3211 * Minor man page fixes.
3212 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3213 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3214 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3218 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3221 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3222 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3223 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3224 use -X multiple times, too.
3225 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3226 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3230 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3233 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3234 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3238 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3241 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3245 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3248 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3249 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3250 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3251 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3252 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3253 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3254 shape if you're starting a new package.
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3258 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3261 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3265 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3268 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3269 because of missing symlinks.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3273 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3279 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3282 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3283 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3284 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3285 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3286 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3288 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3289 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3293 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3295 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3296 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3297 to be changed after the fact :-)
3298 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3302 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3304 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3305 no version string after the -V.
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3309 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3311 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3312 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3317 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3320 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3324 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3327 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3328 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3329 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3330 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3331 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3332 I always welcome corrections!
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3336 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3342 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3345 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3346 * Documented this new switch.
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3350 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3353 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3354 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3355 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3356 no packages use the old behavior.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3360 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3363 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3364 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3368 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3371 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3375 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3381 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3384 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3388 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3391 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3392 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3393 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3397 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3403 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3406 into the source package by accident.
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3410 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3413 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3414 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3415 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3416 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3417 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3418 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3423 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3425 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3427 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3428 inspired to implement some of it.
3429 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3433 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3435 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3436 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3440 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3443 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3444 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3448 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3451 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3452 have done.) (#17598)
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3456 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3462 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3468 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3471 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3475 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3478 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3479 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3483 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3486 argument processor in perl.
3487 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3488 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3489 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3490 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3494 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3497 type directories. (#16933)
3498 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3499 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3500 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3501 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3502 are supported. (#16935)
3503 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3508 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3511 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3515 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3519 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3520 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3521 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3522 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3523 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3524 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3528 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3531 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3532 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3534 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3535 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3536 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3537 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3538 a given package, or -i or -a.
3539 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3540 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3541 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3542 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3543 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3544 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3545 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3546 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3547 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3549 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3550 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3551 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3555 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3558 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3559 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3564 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3567 does not have a section.
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3571 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3574 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3575 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3576 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3580 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * Fixed typo #16215.
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3586 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3589 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3590 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3591 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3592 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3593 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3598 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3601 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3602 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3603 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3608 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3614 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3620 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3623 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3624 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3625 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3626 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3627 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3628 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3632 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3638 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3641 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3645 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3648 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3649 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3650 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3654 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3657 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3661 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3667 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3670 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3674 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3676 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3677 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3681 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3687 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3690 postinst, postrm, etc.
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3694 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3700 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3703 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3704 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3705 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3706 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3707 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3711 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3714 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3715 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3719 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3722 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3726 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3729 installing package files into.
3730 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3735 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3739 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3743 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3749 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3752 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3756 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3759 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3760 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3761 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3762 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3766 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3768 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3769 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3770 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3771 multiple binary packages.
3772 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3773 should rebuild them with this version.
3774 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3778 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3781 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3785 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3788 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3792 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3795 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3796 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3797 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3798 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3799 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3800 debian/README.debian.
3801 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3802 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3803 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3804 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3805 in a few situations.)
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3809 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3815 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3821 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3824 * Fixed several man pages.
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3828 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3831 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3832 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3836 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3838 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3839 is ready for general use.
3840 * Added man pages for all commands.
3841 * Multiple binary package support.
3842 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3843 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3844 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3846 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3847 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3848 auto-installed as parameters.
3849 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3851 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3854 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3855 the package build directory it is to act on.
3856 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3857 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3858 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3862 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3864 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3865 ready to replace debstd.
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400