1 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Typo, Closes: #203907
4 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
5 removal. Closes: #204286
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
9 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
12 renaming. Closes: #203548
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
16 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
19 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
20 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
24 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
26 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
30 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
36 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
42 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
45 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
46 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
47 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
51 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
53 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
54 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
55 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
59 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
65 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
72 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
75 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
80 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
82 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
83 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
87 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
90 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
92 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
93 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
97 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
100 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
105 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
108 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
112 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
114 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
118 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
120 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
124 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
127 it break hard links (see #188663).
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
131 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
134 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
138 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
144 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
148 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
149 debconf-mergetemplates
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
153 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
155 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
156 pod2man. Closes: #184013
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
160 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
163 * Typo, Closes: #183267
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
167 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
170 * Update debhelper(1).
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
174 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
176 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
177 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
178 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
179 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
180 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
181 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
185 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
188 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
189 the shell. Closes: #178524
190 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
194 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
197 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
201 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
204 undocumented.7 links anymore.
206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
208 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
210 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
211 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
212 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
213 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
214 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
219 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
222 files from installation.
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
226 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
229 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
230 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
234 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
236 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
237 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
241 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
244 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
248 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
254 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
260 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
264 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
265 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
267 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
271 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
273 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
274 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
275 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
276 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
277 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
281 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
283 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
284 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
288 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
291 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
292 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
296 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
300 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
305 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
311 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
315 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
316 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
317 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
322 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
325 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
326 practice. Closes: #163303
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
330 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
336 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
343 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
345 * The "reverse hangover" release.
346 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
348 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
349 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
350 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
351 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
352 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
356 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
359 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
364 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
370 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
377 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
380 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
385 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
387 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
391 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
397 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
403 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
410 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
413 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
414 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
415 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
416 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
421 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Typo, Closes: #155323
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
427 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
434 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
436 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
437 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
438 * Removed dh_installxaw.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
442 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
445 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
446 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
447 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
448 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
449 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
453 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
456 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
458 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
463 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
465 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
466 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
470 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
472 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
473 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
474 right thing. Closes: #150644
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
478 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
485 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
487 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
492 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
495 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
496 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
501 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
507 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
510 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
514 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
517 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
518 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
523 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
526 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
530 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
532 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
536 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
538 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
539 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
540 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
544 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
550 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Removing perl warning message.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
556 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
559 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
560 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
561 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
562 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
563 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
564 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
565 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
566 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
570 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
576 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
583 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
585 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
586 debconf-mergetemplate.
587 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
588 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
592 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
594 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
595 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
596 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
597 dh_install, which ...
598 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
599 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
600 mess, as it uses debian/install.
601 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
602 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
603 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
604 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
605 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
606 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
607 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
608 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
609 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
610 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
611 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
613 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
614 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
615 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
616 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
617 course there's -X ..)
618 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
619 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
620 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
622 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
623 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
624 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
625 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
626 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
631 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
637 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Typo, Closes: #139176
640 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
644 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
650 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
656 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
662 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
668 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
671 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
672 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
673 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
674 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
676 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
677 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
681 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
687 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Typo, Closes: #132454
690 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
694 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
696 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
697 upset. Closes: #131322
699 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
701 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
704 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
705 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
706 line, as well as in debian/rules.
707 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
708 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
709 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
710 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
711 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
712 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
713 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
714 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
715 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
716 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
717 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
718 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
720 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
724 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
726 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
727 - Better indenting of generated code.
728 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
732 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
736 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
737 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
738 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
739 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
740 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
741 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
742 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
746 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
749 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
753 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
756 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
757 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
758 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
759 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
760 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
761 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
762 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
763 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
764 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
765 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
766 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
767 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
768 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
769 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
770 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
775 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
781 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
784 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
785 * fixed dh_testdir man page
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
789 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Typo, Closes: #122679
792 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
793 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
797 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
799 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
803 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
806 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
807 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
808 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
809 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
810 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
815 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
817 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
821 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
824 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
828 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
830 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
831 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
836 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
838 * Typo, Closes: #114135
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
842 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
844 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
845 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
849 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
851 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
855 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
859 Also some indentation fixes.
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
863 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
865 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
866 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
867 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
868 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
869 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
870 Closes: #106514, #85520
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
874 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Typo, Closes: #104405
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
880 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
886 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
888 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
892 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
898 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
904 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
907 change it in debhelper v4..
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
911 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
917 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
920 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
924 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
927 is not essential. Closes: #100430
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
931 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
937 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
940 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
941 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
942 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
943 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
944 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
945 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
946 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
947 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
948 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
949 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
950 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
951 prefixed with ".debhelper")
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
955 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
958 look just like shared libs, but are not.
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
962 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
969 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
972 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
973 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
974 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
975 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
976 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
977 program those options go to. So, for example,
978 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
979 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
980 something complex. Closes: #89311
981 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
985 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
988 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
989 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
990 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
994 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
996 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
997 through loop. Closes: #98598
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1001 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Missing semi-colon.
1004 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1005 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1009 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1012 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1013 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1014 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1018 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1021 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1022 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1026 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1029 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1033 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1035 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1036 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1037 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1041 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1044 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1045 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1046 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1050 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1053 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1054 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1055 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1059 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1062 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1066 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1072 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1078 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1084 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1090 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1093 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1097 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1100 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1101 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1102 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1103 followed. Closes: #85483
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1107 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1109 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1110 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1111 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1115 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1118 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1119 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1120 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1121 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1122 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1123 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1124 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1125 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1126 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1127 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1128 Closes: #88464, #77743
1129 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1130 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1131 us to deal with that gracefully.
1132 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1134 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1135 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1136 a while, Closes: #51225
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1140 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1146 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1148 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1149 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1153 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1157 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1162 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1165 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1166 don't make packlist files.
1167 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1168 debhelper coding standards.
1169 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1170 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1174 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1177 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1181 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1184 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1185 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1186 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1187 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1188 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1189 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1190 but is mildly deprecated.
1191 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1192 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1193 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1194 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1195 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1196 switching to statoverrides..
1197 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1198 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1199 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1200 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1201 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1202 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1204 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1205 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1206 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1207 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1208 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1209 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1210 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1211 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1212 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1214 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1215 variable names, pod man pages).
1216 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1217 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1218 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1219 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1220 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1221 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1222 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1226 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1232 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1239 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1242 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1246 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1248 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1249 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1250 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1254 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1256 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1257 they were previously ignored.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1261 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1263 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1264 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1268 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1270 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1271 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1272 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1276 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1278 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1282 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1284 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1285 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1289 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1291 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1292 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1293 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1294 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1295 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1296 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1297 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1298 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1299 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1300 it is an obsolete program.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1304 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1306 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1310 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1314 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1316 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1320 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1322 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1324 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1326 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1330 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1336 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * typo: Closes, #78567
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1342 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1348 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1354 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1357 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1358 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1359 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1360 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1361 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1365 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1368 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1373 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1376 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1377 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1378 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1379 backwards-compatability.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1383 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1386 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1387 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1388 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1389 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1390 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1391 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1393 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1394 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1395 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1397 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1399 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1400 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1401 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1402 should now be raised to severity important..
1403 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1404 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1408 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1411 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1416 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1422 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1428 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1434 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1441 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1444 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1445 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1446 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1447 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1451 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1457 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1460 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1461 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1462 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1463 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1464 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1465 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1470 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1473 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1477 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1483 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1486 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1491 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1494 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1495 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1496 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1497 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1501 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1505 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1508 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1511 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1512 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1515 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1517 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1518 the TODO entry about it.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1522 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1529 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1532 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1533 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1537 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1540 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1541 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1542 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1543 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1547 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1553 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1560 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1563 (this appears to be logal).
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1567 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1570 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1571 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1572 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1573 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1577 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1583 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1586 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1587 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1588 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1589 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1593 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1599 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1601 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1602 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1606 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1613 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1616 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1617 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1618 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1623 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1630 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1636 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1639 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1640 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1641 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1642 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1643 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1644 notice until v2 is complete.
1645 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1646 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1647 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1648 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1649 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1650 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1652 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1653 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1654 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1655 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1659 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1665 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1672 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1675 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1679 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1686 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1689 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1690 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1691 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1692 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1697 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1700 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1701 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1702 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1707 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1710 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1711 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1715 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1718 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1722 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1725 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1729 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1736 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1739 depend on the build and install targets.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1743 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1746 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1750 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1757 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1763 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1769 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1772 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1773 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1774 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1775 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1776 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1777 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1779 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1780 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1781 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1782 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1783 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1784 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1785 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1789 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1795 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1801 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1804 right place. Closes: #55065
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1808 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1815 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1818 * Copyright date updates.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1822 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1825 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1830 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1836 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1843 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1849 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1855 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1861 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1864 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1865 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1866 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1867 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1868 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1869 bits until all files have been registered.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1873 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_installmanpages:
1876 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1877 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1878 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1879 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1880 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1881 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1882 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1883 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1884 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1885 otherwise change the result at all.
1887 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1888 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1889 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1890 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1891 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1896 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1902 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1905 act on files that don't exist.
1906 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1907 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1908 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1910 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1911 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1912 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1913 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1917 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1923 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1929 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1932 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1936 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1939 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1941 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1942 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1943 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1947 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1950 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1951 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1952 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1953 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1954 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1955 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1956 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1958 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1960 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1964 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1971 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1977 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1983 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1986 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1990 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1996 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2002 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2005 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2006 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2007 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2008 I made some changes, though:
2009 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2010 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2011 that is a clear violation of policy.
2012 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2013 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2014 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2015 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2016 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2017 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2018 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2019 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2020 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2022 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2026 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2032 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2035 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2039 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2042 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2043 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2048 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2054 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2061 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2064 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2065 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2066 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2067 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2068 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2069 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2070 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2074 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2080 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2084 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2085 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2089 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2095 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2098 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2102 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2105 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2106 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2110 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2112 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2117 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2121 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2125 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2128 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2129 for the dependancies to be generated.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2133 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2136 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2140 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2143 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2144 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2145 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2150 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2153 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2154 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2158 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2164 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2170 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2173 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2177 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2183 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2186 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2187 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2188 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2189 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2190 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2191 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2192 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2193 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2194 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2195 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2196 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2197 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2201 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2204 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2205 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2207 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2208 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2209 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2210 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2211 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2212 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2214 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2215 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2219 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2222 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2226 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2233 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2236 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2241 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2244 for building debhelper.
2245 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2249 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2256 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2259 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2263 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2266 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2267 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2268 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2269 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2270 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2271 it's always available.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2275 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2278 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2279 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2280 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2284 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2287 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2288 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2292 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2298 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2301 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2305 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2311 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2314 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2315 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2316 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2320 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2323 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2328 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2331 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2332 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2334 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2335 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2339 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2345 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2351 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2354 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2358 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2361 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2362 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2364 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2368 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2371 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2372 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2373 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2377 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2380 things if CDPATH is set.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2384 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2390 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2392 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2393 seems to make sense for the transition.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2397 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2400 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2405 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2408 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2409 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2413 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2416 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2420 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2423 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2424 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2425 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2426 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2430 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2436 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2439 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2440 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2441 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2442 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2443 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2444 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2445 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2446 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2447 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2448 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2453 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2456 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2457 * README: mention doc/v2
2458 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2459 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2463 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2465 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2466 be using this script RSN.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2470 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2473 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2474 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2475 more than 1 init script.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2479 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2482 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2486 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * Changed perl version detection.
2489 * Changed call to find.
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2493 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2496 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2498 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2503 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * Really include dh_installpam.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2509 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2512 * Wrote man page for same.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2516 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2519 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2520 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2525 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2532 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2535 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2536 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2537 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2538 x bit was being set!
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2542 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2545 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2546 well. (Closes: 38900)
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2550 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2553 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2554 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2558 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2564 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2571 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2577 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2580 help from Julian Gilbey.
2581 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2582 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2583 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2584 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2585 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2586 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2587 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2592 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2598 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2605 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2611 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2617 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2620 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2624 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2627 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2631 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2634 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2638 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2644 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2647 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2651 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2657 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2663 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2666 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2667 may be deleted. (#35845)
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2671 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Various man page enhancements.
2674 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2679 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2682 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2683 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2687 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2690 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2691 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2692 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2694 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2695 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2700 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2706 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Another very minor typo fix.
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2712 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * Very minor typo fix.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2718 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2721 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2722 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2726 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2732 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2735 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2736 variables properly (#34850).
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2740 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2746 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2749 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2750 (automatically generated by build process).
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2754 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2756 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2760 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2762 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2763 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2764 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2766 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2770 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2772 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2773 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2777 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * README: minor typo fix.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2783 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2786 leave it at that. :-)
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2790 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2796 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2802 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2805 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2806 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2807 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2811 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2814 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2818 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2821 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2825 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2828 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2829 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2830 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2831 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2835 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2838 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2839 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2840 Craig Small for spotting this.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2844 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2847 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2848 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2852 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2858 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2861 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2865 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2867 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2868 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2869 working on the last version of debhelper.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2873 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2876 being made. (#23255)
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2880 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2886 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2889 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2893 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2896 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2897 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2898 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2899 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2903 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2906 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2907 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2908 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2909 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2911 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2912 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2914 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2919 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2925 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2931 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2934 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2935 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2936 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2937 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2938 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2939 suidregister actually supports it.
2940 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2941 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2945 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2952 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2955 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2956 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2957 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2958 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2959 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2960 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2961 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2965 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2967 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2968 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2972 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2975 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2976 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2977 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2978 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2982 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2985 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2987 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2988 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2989 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2990 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2991 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2992 effect, either. (#30118)
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2996 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3002 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3005 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3006 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3010 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3016 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3019 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3020 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3021 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3022 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3026 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3029 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3030 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3034 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3036 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3040 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3043 packages, painlessly.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3047 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3053 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3059 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3065 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * The perl conversion is complete.
3069 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3071 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3072 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3073 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3078 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3081 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3082 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3083 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3087 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3090 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3092 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3094 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3095 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3099 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3102 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3103 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3107 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3113 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3116 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3117 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3118 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3119 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3120 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3124 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3127 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3128 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3129 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3130 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3134 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3137 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3141 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3144 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3145 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3146 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3147 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3148 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3149 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3150 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3151 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3155 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3161 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3164 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3165 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3166 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3171 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3174 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3178 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3181 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3185 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3188 sections of shared libraries.
3189 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3190 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3191 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3192 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3193 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3194 things you don't want them to.
3195 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3196 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3200 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3203 shared libraries. (#26414)
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3207 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3209 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3210 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3211 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3212 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3216 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3220 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3222 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3223 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3224 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3225 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3226 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3230 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3233 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3237 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3240 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3241 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3246 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3249 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3253 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3256 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3257 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3258 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3259 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3260 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3262 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3263 remove debian/files properly.
3264 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3265 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3266 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3267 * Removed bogus menu file.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3271 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3274 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3278 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3281 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3282 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3283 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3284 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3285 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3286 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3290 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3293 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3294 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3295 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3296 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3300 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3307 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3310 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3311 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3313 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3314 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3315 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3316 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3317 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3318 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3322 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3325 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3326 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3327 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3328 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3329 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3330 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3331 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3332 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3333 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3334 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3335 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3336 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3337 passed any switches.
3338 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3342 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3345 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3346 at all for a long while.
3347 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3348 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3349 large chunks in the process.
3350 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3351 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3352 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3357 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3360 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3362 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3367 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3370 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3371 that don't always have the same files in them.
3372 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3373 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3374 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3378 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3382 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3383 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3384 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3385 updating 27 man pages.
3386 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3387 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3388 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3389 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3390 programs act on. (#25247)
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3394 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3398 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3399 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3400 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3401 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3402 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3403 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3408 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3415 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3422 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3425 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3429 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3431 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3435 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3438 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3439 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3440 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3441 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3442 package by accident.
3443 * Is version 1.0 next?
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3447 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3450 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3451 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3455 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3458 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3459 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3460 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3461 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3462 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3464 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3469 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3472 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3473 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3477 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3480 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3484 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3487 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3488 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3493 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3499 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3502 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3503 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3508 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3510 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3514 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3517 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3518 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3519 past week. Thanks, guys!
3521 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3522 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3523 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3524 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3525 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3526 would do in the same situation.
3527 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3528 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3530 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3532 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3533 permissions changed.
3534 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3535 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3536 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3537 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3538 files are treated identically.
3539 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3540 * Minor man page fixes.
3541 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3542 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3543 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3547 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3550 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3551 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3552 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3553 use -X multiple times, too.
3554 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3555 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3559 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3562 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3563 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3567 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3570 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3574 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3577 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3578 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3579 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3580 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3581 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3582 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3583 shape if you're starting a new package.
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3587 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3590 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3594 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3597 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3598 because of missing symlinks.
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3602 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3608 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3611 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3612 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3613 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3614 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3615 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3617 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3618 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3622 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3624 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3625 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3626 to be changed after the fact :-)
3627 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3631 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3634 no version string after the -V.
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3638 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3640 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3641 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3646 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3649 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3653 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3656 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3657 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3658 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3659 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3660 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3661 I always welcome corrections!
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3665 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3671 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3674 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3675 * Documented this new switch.
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3679 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3682 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3683 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3684 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3685 no packages use the old behavior.
3687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3689 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3691 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3692 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3693 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3697 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3700 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3704 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3710 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3713 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3717 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3720 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3721 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3722 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3726 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3732 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3735 into the source package by accident.
3737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3739 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3741 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3742 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3743 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3744 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3745 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3746 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3747 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3752 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3756 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3757 inspired to implement some of it.
3758 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3762 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3765 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3769 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3772 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3773 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3777 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3780 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3781 have done.) (#17598)
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3785 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3791 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3797 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3800 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3804 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3807 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3808 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3812 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3815 argument processor in perl.
3816 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3817 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3818 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3819 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3823 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3826 type directories. (#16933)
3827 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3828 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3829 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3830 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3831 are supported. (#16935)
3832 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3837 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3840 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3844 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3848 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3849 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3850 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3851 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3852 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3853 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3857 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3860 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3861 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3863 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3864 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3865 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3866 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3867 a given package, or -i or -a.
3868 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3869 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3870 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3871 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3872 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3873 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3874 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3875 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3876 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3878 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3879 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3880 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3884 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3886 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3887 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3888 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3893 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3895 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3896 does not have a section.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3900 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3903 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3904 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3905 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3909 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * Fixed typo #16215.
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3915 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3918 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3919 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3920 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3921 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3922 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3927 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3930 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3931 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3932 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3937 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3943 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3949 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3952 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3953 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3954 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3955 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3956 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3957 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3961 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3963 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3967 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3969 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3970 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3974 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3977 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3978 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3979 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3983 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3985 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3986 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3990 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3996 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3998 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3999 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4003 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4006 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4010 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4016 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4019 postinst, postrm, etc.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4023 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4029 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4032 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4033 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4034 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4035 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4036 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4040 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4043 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4044 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4048 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4051 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4055 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4058 installing package files into.
4059 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4064 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4068 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4072 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4078 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4081 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4085 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4087 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4088 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4089 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4090 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4091 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4095 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4097 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4098 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4099 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4100 multiple binary packages.
4101 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4102 should rebuild them with this version.
4103 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4107 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4109 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4110 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4114 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4117 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4121 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4123 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4124 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4125 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4126 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4127 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4128 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4129 debian/README.debian.
4130 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4131 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4132 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4133 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4134 in a few situations.)
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4138 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4144 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4146 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4150 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4153 * Fixed several man pages.
4155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4157 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4159 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4160 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4161 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4165 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4167 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4168 is ready for general use.
4169 * Added man pages for all commands.
4170 * Multiple binary package support.
4171 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4172 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4173 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4175 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4176 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4177 auto-installed as parameters.
4178 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4180 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4183 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4184 the package build directory it is to act on.
4185 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4186 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4187 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4191 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4193 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4194 ready to replace debstd.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400