1 debhelper (5.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installinfo: Escape section with \Q \E. Closes: #337215
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 11:04:21 -0500
7 debhelper (5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
9 * debhelper v5 mode is finalised and the new recommended compatability
10 level. Unless your package uses dh_strip --dbg-package, switching to v5
11 is 99.999% unlikely to change anything in a package, and it allows
12 adding comments to all your debhelper config files, so I recommend making
13 the switch as soon as this version reaches testing.
14 * debhelper.1: Explicitly document that docs describe latest compat
15 level and changes from earlier levels are concentrated in the
16 "Debhelper compatibility levels" section of debhelper.1. Closes: #336906
18 * dh_install: Add package name to missing files error. Closes: #336908
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:54:29 -0500
22 debhelper (4.9.15) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Patches from Ghe Rivero to fix outdated paths in French and Spanish
25 translations of dh_installmenus(1). Closes: #335314
26 * add.fr update. Closes: #335727
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 19:51:54 -0400
30 debhelper (4.9.14) unstable; urgency=low
32 * dh_installmanpages: Remove X11 man page special case; X man pages are ok
34 * French mn page translation update. Closes: #335178, #334765
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Oct 2005 13:41:09 -0400
38 debhelper (4.9.13) unstable; urgency=low
40 * dh_strip: Man page typo fix. Closes: #332747
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Oct 2005 12:31:22 -0400
44 debhelper (4.9.12) unstable; urgency=low
46 * dh_installdeb: Don't autogenerate conffiles for udebs.
47 Let's ignore conffiles (and shlibs) files for udebs too.
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Oct 2005 12:00:22 -0400
52 debhelper (4.9.11) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to update the Spanish translation.
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:26:07 -0400
59 debhelper (4.9.10) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Patch from Valéry Perrin to use po4a for localised manpages. Thanks!
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Sep 2005 23:11:12 +0200
66 debhelper (4.9.9) unstable; urgency=low
68 * dh_shlibdeps: Avoid a use strict warning in some cases if
69 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
70 * ACK NMU. Closes: #327209
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:32:53 -0400
74 debhelper (4.9.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
76 * NMU with maintainer approval.
77 * dh_gconf: delegate schema registration the gconf-schemas script,
78 which moves schemas to /var/lib/gconf, and require gconf2 2.10.1-2,
79 where it can be found. Closes: #327209
81 -- Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 23:39:01 +0200
83 debhelper (4.9.8) unstable; urgency=low
85 * Spelling patch from Kumar Appaiah. Closes: #324892
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 22:12:41 -0400
89 debhelper (4.9.7) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_installdocs: Fix stupid and horrible typo. Closes: #325098
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:20:47 -0400
95 debhelper (4.9.6) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_installdocs: Install symlinks to in -x mode, same as in non exclude
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:20:02 -0400
102 debhelper (4.9.5) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_install: in v5 mode, error out if there are wildcards in the file
105 list and the wildcards expand to nothing. Done only for v5 as this is a
106 behavior change. Closes: #249815
107 * dh_usrlocal: generate prerm scripts that do not remove distroties in
108 /usr/local, but only subdirectories thereof, in accordance with policy.
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jul 2005 10:08:05 -0400
113 debhelper (4.9.4) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_clean: switch to using complex_doit for the evil find command
116 and quoting everything explicitly rather than the doit approach used
117 before. This way all uses of EXCLUDE_FIND will use complex_doit, which
118 is necesary for sanity.
119 * Dh_Lib: Make COMPLEX_DOIT properly escape wildcards for use with
120 complex_doit. Before they were unescaped, which could lead to subtle
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:47:30 -0400
125 debhelper (4.9.3) unstable; urgency=high
127 * Fix typo in postrm-modules fragment. Closes: #316069
128 Recommend any dh_installmodules users rebuild ASAP.
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:41:51 -0400
132 debhelper (4.9.2) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Fix typo in dh_install example. Closes: #314964
135 * Fix deprecation message. Closes: #315517
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Jun 2005 16:17:05 -0400
139 debhelper (4.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
141 * Fix typo in dh_strip.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:32:12 -0400
145 debhelper (4.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Begin work on compatability level 5. The set of changes in this mode is
148 still being determined, and will be until debhelper version 5.0 is
149 released, so use at your own risk.
150 * dh_strip: In v5, make --dbg-package specify a single debugging package
151 that gets the debugging symbols from the other packages acted on.
153 * In v5, ignore comments in config files. Only comments at the start of
154 lines are ignored. Closes: #206422
155 * In v5, also ignore empty lines in config files. Closes: #212162
156 * In v5, empty files are skipped by dh_installdocs.
157 * Use v5 to build debhelper.
158 * Add deprecation warnings for debhelper v1 and v2.
159 * Document getpackages in PROGRAMMING.
160 * Add another test-case for dh_link.
161 * dh_python: Minimal fix from Joss for -V to make it search the right
162 site-packages directories. Closes: #312661
163 * Make compat() cache the expensive bits, since we run it more and more,
164 including twice per config file line now..
165 * Add a "run" program to source tree to make local testing easier
166 and simplfy the rules file.
167 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305806, #305816
168 * dh_installmenu: menus moved to /usr/share/menu. Closes: #228618
169 Anyone with a binary executable menu file is SOL but there are none in
171 * Removed old versioned build deps for stuff that shipped in sarge or
172 earlier, mostly to shut up linda and lintian's stupid messages.
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:01:20 -0400
176 debhelper (4.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
178 * Spanish translation update for dh_installdebconf(1).
179 * YA man page typo fix. Closes: #308182
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 May 2005 13:02:22 -0400
183 debhelper (4.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Man page typo fixes. Closes: #305809, #305804, #305815, #305810
186 Closes: #305812, #305814, #305819, #305818, #305817, #305822
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:27:55 -0400
190 debhelper (4.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
192 * The infinite number of monkeys release.
193 * dh_md5sums: don't crash if PWD contains an apostrophe. Closes: #305226
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Apr 2005 21:06:43 -0400
197 debhelper (4.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Update Spanish translation of dh_clean man page. Closes: #303052
200 * dh_installmodules autoscripts: Now that return code 3 is allocated by
201 update-modules to indicate /etc/modules.conf is not automatically
202 generated, we can ignore that return code since it's not a condition that
203 should fail an installation. Closes: #165400
204 * dh_md5sums: Fix exclusion of conffiles. Thanks, Damir Dzeko
205 (note: this was broken in version 4.1.22)
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 17:27:12 -0400
209 debhelper (4.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Patch from Fabio Tranchitella to add support for #DEBHELPER# substitutions
212 in config files, although nothing in debhelper itself uses such
213 substitutions, third-party addons may. Closes: #301657
214 * Factor out a debhelper_script_subst from dh_installdeb and
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Mar 2005 11:29:01 -0500
219 debhelper (4.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Updated dh_installmime Spanish translation.
222 * Spelling fix. Closes: #293158
223 * Patch from Matthias to split out a package_arch and export it in Dh_Lib.
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:47:29 -0500
228 debhelper (4.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
230 * dh_installmime: Patch from Loïc Minier to add support for instlaling
231 "sharedmimeinfo" files and calling update-mime-database. Closes: #255719
232 * Modified patch to not hardcode pathnames.
233 * Modified other autoscripts so there are no hardcoded pathnames at all
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2005 18:44:11 -0500
238 debhelper (4.2.29) unstable; urgency=low
240 * dh_installdocs Spanish manpage update
241 * dh_installlogcheck: change permissions of logcheck rulefules from 600 to
242 644, at request of logcheck maintainer. Closes: #288357
243 * dh_installlogcheck: fix indentation
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:53:37 -0500
247 debhelper (4.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
249 * dh_python: Add 2.4 to python_allversions. Closes: #285608
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:08:56 -0500
253 debhelper (4.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_desktop: Fix underescaping of *.desktop in call to find.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Dec 2004 14:32:41 -0500
260 debhelper (4.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_makeshlibs spanish translation update
263 * Add example to dh_installdocs man page. Closes: #283857
264 * Clarify dh_python's documentation of -V and error if the version is
265 unknown. Closes: #282924
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 8 Dec 2004 14:44:44 -0500
269 debhelper (4.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
271 * dh_shlibdeps: Only set LD_LIBRARY_PATH when calling dpkg-shlibdeps.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Nov 2004 13:21:05 -0500
276 debhelper (4.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
278 * Spanish man page updates.
279 * Improve the documentation of dh_makeshlibs behavior in v4 mode.
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Oct 2004 18:52:00 -0400
284 debhelper (4.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Fix typo introduced last release. Closes: #278727
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:51:05 -0400
290 debhelper (4.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_desktop Spanish man page from Ruben Porras.
293 * dh_desktop: reindent
294 * dh_desktop: only register files in /usr/share/applications
295 with update-desktop-database. Closes: #278353
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:42:29 -0400
299 debhelper (4.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Add dh_desktop, from Ross Burton. Closes: #275454
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 14:31:07 -0400
305 debhelper (4.2.20) unstable; urgency=HIGH
307 * dpkg-cross is fixed in unstable, version the conflict. Closes: #265777
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:05:42 -0400
311 debhelper (4.2.19) unstable; urgency=HIGH
313 * Conflict with dpkg-cross since it breaks dh_strip.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:50:12 -0300
317 debhelper (4.2.18) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Add dh_shlibdeps see also. Closes: #261367
320 * Update dh_gconf man page for new schema location. Closes: #264378
321 * debhelper.7 man page typo fix. Closes: #265603
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:16:51 -0300
325 debhelper (4.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
327 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #261516
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:41:37 -0400
331 debhelper (4.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
333 * dh_gconf: fix glob escaping in find for schemas. Closes: #260488
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:20:21 -0400
337 debhelper (4.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
339 * dh_gconf: deal with problems if /etc/gconf/schemas doesn't exist any more
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 2004 11:52:45 -0400
344 debhelper (4.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Make dh_gconf postinst more portable.
347 * Strip spoch when generating udeb filenames. Closes: #258864
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:15:34 -0400
351 debhelper (4.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Spanish man page updates from Ruben Porras. Closes: #247382
354 * dh_gconf: gconf schemas moved to /usr/share/gconf/schemas. Relocate
355 schemas from /etc/gconf/schemas. (Josselin Mouette)
356 * dh_gconf: kill gconfd-2 so that the newly installed schemas
357 are available straight away. (Josselin Mouette)
358 * dh_gconf: fix bashism in restart of gconfd-2
359 * dh_gconf: fix innaccuracy in man page; gconfd-2 is HUPPed, not
361 * dh_scrollkeeper: stop adding scrollkeeper to misc:Depends, since
362 the postinst will not run it if it's not installed, and a single run after
363 it's installed is sufficient to find all documents. Closes: #256745
364 * dh_fixperms: make .ali files mode 444 to prevent recompilation by GNAT.
365 For speed, only scan for .ali files in usr/lib/ada. Closes: #245211
366 * dh_python: check to make sure compileall.py is available before running it
367 in the postinst. Closes: #253112
368 * dh_installmodules: install debian/package.modprobe into etc/modprobe.d/
369 for module-init-tools. These files can sometimes need to differ from the
370 etc/modutils/ files. Closes: #204336, #234495
371 * dh_installmanpages is now deprecated.
372 * Add a test case for bug #244157, and fixed the inverted ok() parameters
373 in the others, and added a few new tests.
374 * dh_link: applied GOTO Masanori's patch to fix conversion of existing
375 relative symlinks between top level directories. Closes: #244157
376 * Warn if debian/compat is empty.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 2004 12:52:30 -0400
380 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
387 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
390 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
394 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
397 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
401 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
404 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
408 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
411 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
415 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
417 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
421 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
427 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
433 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
436 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
437 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
438 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
442 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
445 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
449 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
452 but occasionally right and necessary.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
456 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
458 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
459 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
460 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
461 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
462 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
463 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
467 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
470 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
472 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
473 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
474 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
475 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
476 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
477 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
478 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
479 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
480 postinst scripts for udebs.
481 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
485 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
488 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
490 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
491 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
495 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
497 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
501 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
508 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
515 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
518 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
522 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
525 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
529 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
532 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
535 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
536 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
540 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
546 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
549 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
553 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
556 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
557 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
558 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
560 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
562 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
563 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
564 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
568 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
570 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
571 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
576 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
578 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
579 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
580 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
581 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
586 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
588 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
592 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
598 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
600 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
601 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
602 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
603 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
604 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
605 associated -dbg packages.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
609 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
612 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
616 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
619 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
623 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
626 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
630 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
633 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
638 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Typo. Closes: #207999
641 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
645 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
647 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
648 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
653 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
655 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
656 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
660 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
662 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
664 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
665 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
666 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
667 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
668 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
669 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
670 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
671 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
672 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
673 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
677 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
680 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
685 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
687 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
688 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
689 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
693 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
696 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
697 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
702 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
704 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
705 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
709 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
712 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
716 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
718 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
719 out section number. Closes: #204731
721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
723 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
725 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
730 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
732 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
736 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
738 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
742 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Typo, Closes: #203907
745 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
746 removal. Closes: #204286
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
750 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
752 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
753 renaming. Closes: #203548
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
757 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
760 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
761 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
765 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
771 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
777 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
783 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
785 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
786 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
787 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
788 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
792 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
795 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
796 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
800 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
806 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
813 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
816 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
821 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
823 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
824 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
828 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
830 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
831 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
833 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
834 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
838 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
840 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
841 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
846 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
849 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
853 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
859 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
861 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
865 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
868 it break hard links (see #188663).
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
872 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
875 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
879 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
885 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
889 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
890 debconf-mergetemplates
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
894 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
897 pod2man. Closes: #184013
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
901 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
904 * Typo, Closes: #183267
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
908 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
911 * Update debhelper(1).
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
915 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
917 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
918 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
919 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
920 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
921 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
922 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
926 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
929 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
930 the shell. Closes: #178524
931 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
935 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
937 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
938 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
942 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
944 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
945 undocumented.7 links anymore.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
949 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
951 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
952 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
953 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
954 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
955 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
960 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
963 files from installation.
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
967 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
969 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
970 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
971 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
975 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
978 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
982 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
985 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
989 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
995 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
1001 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
1005 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
1006 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
1008 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
1012 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
1015 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
1016 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
1017 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
1018 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
1022 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
1025 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
1029 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
1032 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
1033 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
1037 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
1041 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
1046 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
1052 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
1056 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
1057 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
1058 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
1063 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
1066 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
1067 practice. Closes: #163303
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
1071 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
1077 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
1084 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * The "reverse hangover" release.
1087 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
1089 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
1090 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
1091 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
1092 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
1093 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
1097 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1099 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
1100 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
1105 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
1111 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
1118 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
1121 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
1126 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
1132 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
1138 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
1144 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
1151 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
1154 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
1155 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
1156 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
1157 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
1162 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Typo, Closes: #155323
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
1168 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
1175 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
1178 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
1179 * Removed dh_installxaw.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
1183 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
1186 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
1187 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
1188 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
1189 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
1190 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
1194 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
1197 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
1199 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
1204 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
1207 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
1211 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
1214 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
1215 right thing. Closes: #150644
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
1219 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Stupid, evil typo.
1222 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
1226 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
1233 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
1236 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
1237 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
1242 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
1248 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
1251 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
1255 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
1258 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
1259 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
1264 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
1267 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
1271 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
1277 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
1280 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
1281 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
1285 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
1291 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Removing perl warning message.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
1297 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
1300 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
1301 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
1302 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
1303 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
1304 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
1305 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
1306 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
1307 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
1311 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
1317 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
1324 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
1327 debconf-mergetemplate.
1328 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
1329 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
1333 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
1336 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
1337 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
1338 dh_install, which ...
1339 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
1340 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
1341 mess, as it uses debian/install.
1342 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
1343 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
1344 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
1345 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
1346 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
1347 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
1348 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
1349 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
1350 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
1351 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
1352 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
1353 other minor changes.
1354 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
1355 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
1356 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
1357 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
1358 course there's -X ..)
1359 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
1360 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
1361 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
1363 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
1364 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
1365 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
1366 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
1367 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
1372 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
1378 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1381 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1385 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1387 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1391 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1397 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1403 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1409 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1412 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1413 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1414 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1415 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1417 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1418 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1422 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1428 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1431 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1435 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1438 upset. Closes: #131322
1440 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1442 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1445 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1446 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1447 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1448 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1449 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1450 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1451 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1452 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1453 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1454 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1455 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1456 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1457 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1458 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1459 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1461 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1465 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1468 - Better indenting of generated code.
1469 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1473 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1477 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1478 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1479 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1480 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1481 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1482 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1483 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1487 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1490 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1494 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1497 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1498 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1499 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1500 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1501 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1502 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1503 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1504 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1505 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1506 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1507 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1508 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1509 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1510 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1511 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1516 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1522 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1525 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1526 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1530 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1533 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1534 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1538 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1544 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1547 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1548 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1549 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1550 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1551 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1556 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1562 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1565 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1569 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1572 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1577 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1583 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1586 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1590 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1596 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1600 Also some indentation fixes.
1602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1604 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1606 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1607 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1608 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1609 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1610 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1611 Closes: #106514, #85520
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1615 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1621 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1627 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1633 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1639 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1645 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1648 change it in debhelper v4..
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1652 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1658 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1661 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1665 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1668 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1672 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1678 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1681 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1682 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1683 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1684 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1685 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1686 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1687 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1688 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1689 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1690 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1691 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1692 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1696 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1699 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1703 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1710 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1713 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1714 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1715 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1716 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1717 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1718 program those options go to. So, for example,
1719 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1720 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1721 something complex. Closes: #89311
1722 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1726 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1729 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1730 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1731 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1735 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1738 through loop. Closes: #98598
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1742 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * Missing semi-colon.
1745 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1746 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1750 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1753 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1754 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1755 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1759 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1762 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1763 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1767 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1770 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1774 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1777 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1778 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1782 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1785 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1786 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1787 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1791 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1794 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1795 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1796 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1800 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1803 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1807 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1813 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1819 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1825 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1831 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1834 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1838 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1841 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1842 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1843 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1844 followed. Closes: #85483
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1848 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1850 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1851 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1852 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1856 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1859 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1860 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1861 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1862 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1863 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1864 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1865 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1866 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1867 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1868 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1869 Closes: #88464, #77743
1870 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1871 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1872 us to deal with that gracefully.
1873 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1875 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1876 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1877 a while, Closes: #51225
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1881 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1887 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1890 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1894 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1898 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1903 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1906 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1907 don't make packlist files.
1908 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1909 debhelper coding standards.
1910 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1911 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1915 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1918 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1922 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1925 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1926 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1927 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1928 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1929 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1930 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1931 but is mildly deprecated.
1932 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1933 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1934 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1935 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1936 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1937 switching to statoverrides..
1938 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1939 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1940 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1941 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1942 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1943 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1945 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1946 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1947 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1948 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1949 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1950 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1951 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1952 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1953 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1955 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1956 variable names, pod man pages).
1957 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1958 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1959 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1960 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1961 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1962 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1963 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1967 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1973 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1980 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1983 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1987 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1989 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1990 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1991 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1995 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1997 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1998 they were previously ignored.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
2002 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
2004 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
2005 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
2009 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2011 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
2012 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
2013 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
2017 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
2019 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
2023 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
2025 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
2026 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
2030 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
2032 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
2033 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
2034 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
2035 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
2036 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
2037 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
2038 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
2039 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
2040 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
2041 it is an obsolete program.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
2045 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
2047 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
2051 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
2055 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
2057 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
2061 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
2063 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
2065 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
2067 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
2071 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
2077 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * typo: Closes, #78567
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
2083 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
2089 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
2095 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
2098 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
2099 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
2100 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
2101 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
2102 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
2106 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
2109 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
2114 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
2117 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
2118 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
2119 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
2120 backwards-compatability.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
2124 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
2127 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
2128 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
2129 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
2130 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
2131 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
2132 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
2134 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
2135 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
2136 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
2138 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
2140 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
2141 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
2142 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
2143 should now be raised to severity important..
2144 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
2145 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
2149 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
2152 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
2157 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Typo, Closes: #77441
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
2163 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Completed the fix from the last version.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
2169 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
2175 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
2182 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
2185 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
2186 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
2187 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
2188 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
2192 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
2198 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
2201 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
2202 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
2203 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
2204 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
2205 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
2206 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
2211 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
2214 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
2218 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
2224 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
2227 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
2232 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
2235 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
2236 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
2237 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
2238 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
2242 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
2246 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
2249 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
2252 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
2253 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
2256 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
2258 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
2259 the TODO entry about it.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
2263 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
2270 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
2273 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
2274 prevent that. Closes: #73052
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
2278 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Typo, Closes: #72932
2281 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
2282 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
2283 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
2284 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
2288 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
2294 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
2301 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
2304 (this appears to be logal).
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
2308 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
2311 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
2312 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
2313 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
2314 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
2318 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
2324 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
2327 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
2328 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
2329 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
2330 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
2334 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
2340 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
2343 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
2347 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
2354 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
2357 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
2358 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
2359 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
2364 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
2371 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
2377 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2380 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2381 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2382 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2383 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2384 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2385 notice until v2 is complete.
2386 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2387 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2388 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2389 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2390 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2391 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2393 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2394 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2395 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2396 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2400 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2402 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2406 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2413 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2416 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2420 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2427 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2430 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2431 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2432 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2433 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2438 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2441 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2442 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2443 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2448 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2451 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2452 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2456 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2459 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2463 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2466 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2470 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2477 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2480 depend on the build and install targets.
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2484 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2487 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2491 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2498 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2500 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2504 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2510 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2513 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2514 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2515 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2516 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2517 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2518 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2520 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2521 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2522 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2523 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2524 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2525 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2526 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2530 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2536 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2542 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2545 right place. Closes: #55065
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2549 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2556 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2559 * Copyright date updates.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2563 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2566 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2571 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2577 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2584 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2590 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2596 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2602 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2605 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2606 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2607 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2608 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2609 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2610 bits until all files have been registered.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2614 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_installmanpages:
2617 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2618 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2619 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2620 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2621 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2622 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2623 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2624 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2625 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2626 otherwise change the result at all.
2628 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2629 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2630 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2631 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2632 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2637 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2643 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2646 act on files that don't exist.
2647 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2648 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2649 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2651 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2652 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2653 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2654 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2658 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2664 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2670 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2673 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2677 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2680 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2682 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2683 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2684 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2688 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2690 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2691 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2692 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2693 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2694 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2695 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2696 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2697 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2699 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2701 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2705 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2712 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2718 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2724 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2727 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2731 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2737 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2743 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2746 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2747 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2748 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2749 I made some changes, though:
2750 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2751 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2752 that is a clear violation of policy.
2753 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2754 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2755 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2756 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2757 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2758 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2759 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2760 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2761 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2763 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2767 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2773 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2776 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2780 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2783 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2784 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2789 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2795 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2797 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2802 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2805 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2806 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2807 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2808 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2809 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2810 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2811 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2815 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2821 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2825 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2826 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2830 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2836 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2839 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2843 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2846 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2847 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2851 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2853 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2858 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2862 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2866 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2869 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2870 for the dependancies to be generated.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2874 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2877 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2881 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2884 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2885 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2886 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2891 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2894 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2895 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2899 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2905 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2911 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2914 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2918 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2924 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2927 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2928 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2929 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2930 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2931 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2932 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2933 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2934 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2935 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2936 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2937 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2938 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2942 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2945 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2946 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2948 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2949 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2950 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2951 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2952 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2953 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2955 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2956 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2960 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2963 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2967 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2974 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2977 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2982 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2985 for building debhelper.
2986 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2990 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2997 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * Fixed makefile commit target.
3000 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
3004 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
3007 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
3008 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
3009 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
3010 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
3011 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
3012 it's always available.
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
3016 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
3019 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
3020 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
3021 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
3025 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
3028 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
3029 modules. (Closes: #42171)
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
3033 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
3039 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
3042 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
3046 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
3052 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
3055 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
3056 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
3057 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
3061 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
3064 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
3069 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
3072 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
3073 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
3075 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
3076 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
3080 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
3086 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
3092 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
3095 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
3099 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
3102 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
3103 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
3105 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
3109 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
3112 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
3113 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
3114 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
3118 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
3121 things if CDPATH is set.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
3125 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
3131 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
3134 seems to make sense for the transition.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
3138 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
3141 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
3146 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
3149 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
3150 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
3154 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
3157 that version. (Closes: #40589)
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
3161 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
3164 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
3165 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
3166 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
3167 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
3171 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
3177 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
3180 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
3181 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
3182 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
3183 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
3184 * debhelper.1: documented this.
3185 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
3186 current compatability level is equal to that number.
3187 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
3188 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
3189 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
3194 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
3197 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
3198 * README: mention doc/v2
3199 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
3200 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
3204 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
3206 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
3207 be using this script RSN.
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
3211 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
3214 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
3215 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
3216 more than 1 init script.
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
3220 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
3223 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
3227 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * Changed perl version detection.
3230 * Changed call to find.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
3234 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
3237 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
3239 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
3244 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * Really include dh_installpam.
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
3250 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
3253 * Wrote man page for same.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
3257 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
3260 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
3261 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
3266 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
3273 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
3276 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
3277 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
3278 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
3279 x bit was being set!
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
3283 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
3286 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
3287 well. (Closes: 38900)
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
3291 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
3294 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
3295 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
3299 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
3305 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
3312 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
3318 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
3321 help from Julian Gilbey.
3322 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
3323 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
3324 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
3325 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
3326 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
3327 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
3328 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
3333 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
3337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
3339 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
3341 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
3346 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
3352 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
3358 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
3361 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
3365 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
3368 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
3372 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
3375 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3379 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3385 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3387 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3388 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3392 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3398 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3404 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3407 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3408 may be deleted. (#35845)
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3412 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * Various man page enhancements.
3415 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3420 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3423 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3424 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3428 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3431 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3432 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3433 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3435 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3436 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3441 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3447 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Another very minor typo fix.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3453 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Very minor typo fix.
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3459 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3461 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3462 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3463 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3467 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3473 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3476 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3477 variables properly (#34850).
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3481 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3487 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3490 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3491 (automatically generated by build process).
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3495 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3497 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3501 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3503 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3504 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3505 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3507 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3511 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3513 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3514 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3518 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * README: minor typo fix.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3524 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3527 leave it at that. :-)
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3531 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3537 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3543 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3545 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3546 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3547 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3548 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3552 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3555 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3559 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3562 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3566 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3569 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3570 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3571 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3572 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3576 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3579 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3580 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3581 Craig Small for spotting this.
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3585 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3588 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3589 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3593 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3599 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3602 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3606 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3608 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3609 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3610 working on the last version of debhelper.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3614 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3617 being made. (#23255)
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3621 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3627 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3630 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3634 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3637 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3638 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3639 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3640 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3644 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3647 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3648 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3649 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3650 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3652 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3653 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3655 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3660 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3666 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3668 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3672 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3675 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3676 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3677 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3678 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3679 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3680 suidregister actually supports it.
3681 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3682 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3686 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3693 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3696 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3697 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3698 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3699 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3700 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3701 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3702 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3706 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3708 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3709 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3713 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3716 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3717 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3718 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3719 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3723 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3726 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3728 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3729 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3730 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3731 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3732 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3733 effect, either. (#30118)
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3737 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3743 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3746 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3747 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3751 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3753 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3757 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3760 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3761 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3762 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3763 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3767 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3770 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3771 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3775 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3781 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3784 packages, painlessly.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3788 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3794 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3796 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3800 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3802 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3806 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * The perl conversion is complete.
3810 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3812 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3813 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3814 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3819 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3822 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3823 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3824 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3828 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3830 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3831 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3833 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3835 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3836 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3840 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3843 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3844 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3848 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3854 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3857 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3858 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3859 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3860 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3861 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3865 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3867 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3868 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3869 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3870 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3871 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3875 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3877 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3878 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3882 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3885 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3886 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3887 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3888 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3889 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3890 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3891 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3892 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3896 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3902 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3905 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3906 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3907 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3912 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3915 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3919 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3922 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3926 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3929 sections of shared libraries.
3930 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3931 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3932 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3933 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3934 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3935 things you don't want them to.
3936 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3937 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3941 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3944 shared libraries. (#26414)
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3948 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3950 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3951 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3952 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3953 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3957 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3961 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3963 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3964 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3965 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3966 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3967 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3971 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3973 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3974 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3978 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3980 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3981 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3982 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3987 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3990 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3994 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3997 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3998 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3999 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
4000 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
4001 I apologize for the inconvenience.
4003 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
4004 remove debian/files properly.
4005 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
4006 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
4007 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
4008 * Removed bogus menu file.
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
4012 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
4015 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
4019 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
4022 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
4023 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
4024 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
4025 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
4026 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
4027 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
4029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
4031 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
4033 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
4034 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
4035 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
4036 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
4037 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
4041 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
4048 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
4051 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
4052 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
4054 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
4055 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
4056 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
4057 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
4058 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
4059 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
4061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
4063 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
4065 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
4066 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
4067 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
4068 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
4069 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
4070 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
4071 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
4072 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
4073 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
4074 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
4075 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
4076 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
4077 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
4078 passed any switches.
4079 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
4081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
4083 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
4085 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
4086 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
4087 at all for a long while.
4088 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
4089 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
4090 large chunks in the process.
4091 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
4092 install many oddly named files it died on before.
4093 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
4098 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
4101 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
4103 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
4106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
4108 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
4110 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
4111 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
4112 that don't always have the same files in them.
4113 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
4114 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
4115 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
4117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
4119 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
4121 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
4123 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
4124 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
4125 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
4126 updating 27 man pages.
4127 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
4128 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
4129 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
4130 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
4131 programs act on. (#25247)
4133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
4135 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
4139 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
4140 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
4141 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
4142 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
4143 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
4144 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
4147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
4149 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
4151 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
4154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
4156 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
4158 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
4161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
4163 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
4165 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
4166 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
4170 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
4176 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
4179 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
4180 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4181 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
4182 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
4183 package by accident.
4184 * Is version 1.0 next?
4186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
4188 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
4190 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
4191 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
4192 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
4194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
4196 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
4198 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
4199 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
4200 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
4201 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
4202 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
4203 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
4205 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
4208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
4210 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
4212 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
4213 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
4214 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
4216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
4218 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
4220 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
4221 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
4225 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
4228 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
4229 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
4234 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
4238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
4240 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
4242 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
4243 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
4244 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
4247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
4249 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
4251 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
4255 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
4258 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
4259 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
4260 past week. Thanks, guys!
4262 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
4263 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
4264 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
4265 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
4266 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
4267 would do in the same situation.
4268 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
4269 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
4271 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
4273 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
4274 permissions changed.
4275 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
4276 some people enjoy changing root's name.
4277 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
4278 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
4279 files are treated identically.
4280 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
4281 * Minor man page fixes.
4282 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
4283 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
4284 --no-act is on. (#23054)
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
4288 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
4291 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
4292 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
4293 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
4294 use -X multiple times, too.
4295 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
4296 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
4300 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
4303 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
4304 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
4308 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
4311 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
4315 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
4318 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
4319 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
4320 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
4321 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
4322 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
4323 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
4324 shape if you're starting a new package.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
4328 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
4331 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
4333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
4335 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
4337 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
4338 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
4339 because of missing symlinks.
4341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
4343 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
4345 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
4347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
4349 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
4351 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
4352 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
4353 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
4354 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
4355 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
4356 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
4358 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
4359 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
4361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
4363 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4365 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
4366 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
4367 to be changed after the fact :-)
4368 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
4372 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4374 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
4375 no version string after the -V.
4377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4379 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4381 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4382 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4387 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4389 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4390 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4394 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4397 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4398 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4399 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4400 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4401 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4402 I always welcome corrections!
4404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4406 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4408 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4412 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4414 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4415 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4416 * Documented this new switch.
4418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4420 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4422 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4423 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4424 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4425 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4426 no packages use the old behavior.
4428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4430 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4432 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4433 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4434 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4438 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4440 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4441 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4445 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4447 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4451 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4453 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4454 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4458 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4461 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4462 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4463 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4467 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4469 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4473 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4475 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4476 into the source package by accident.
4478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4480 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4482 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4483 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4484 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4485 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4486 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4487 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4488 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4493 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4495 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4497 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4498 inspired to implement some of it.
4499 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4503 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4505 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4506 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4510 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4512 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4513 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4514 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4518 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4520 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4521 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4522 have done.) (#17598)
4524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4526 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4528 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4532 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4534 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4538 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4540 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4541 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4545 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4547 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4548 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4549 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4553 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4555 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4556 argument processor in perl.
4557 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4558 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4559 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4560 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4564 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4566 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4567 type directories. (#16933)
4568 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4569 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4570 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4571 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4572 are supported. (#16935)
4573 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4578 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4580 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4581 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4585 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4587 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4589 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4590 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4591 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4592 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4593 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4594 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4598 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4600 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4601 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4602 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4604 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4605 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4606 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4607 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4608 a given package, or -i or -a.
4609 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4610 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4611 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4612 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4613 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4614 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4615 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4616 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4617 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4619 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4620 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4621 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4625 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4627 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4628 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4629 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4634 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4636 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4637 does not have a section.
4639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4641 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4643 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4644 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4645 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4646 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4650 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4652 * Fixed typo #16215.
4654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4656 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4658 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4659 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4660 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4661 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4662 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4663 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4668 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4670 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4671 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4672 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4673 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4678 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4680 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4684 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4686 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4690 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4692 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4693 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4694 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4695 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4696 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4697 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4698 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4702 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4704 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4708 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4710 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4711 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4715 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4717 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4718 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4719 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4720 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4724 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4726 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4727 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4731 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4733 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4737 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4739 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4740 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4744 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4746 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4747 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4751 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4753 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4757 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4759 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4760 postinst, postrm, etc.
4762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4764 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4766 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4770 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4772 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4773 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4774 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4775 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4776 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4777 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4781 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4783 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4784 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4785 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4789 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4791 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4792 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4796 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4798 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4799 installing package files into.
4800 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4805 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4807 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4809 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4813 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4815 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4819 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4821 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4822 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4826 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4828 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4829 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4830 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4831 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4832 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4836 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4838 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4839 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4840 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4841 multiple binary packages.
4842 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4843 should rebuild them with this version.
4844 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4848 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4850 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4851 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4855 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4857 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4858 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4862 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4864 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4865 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4866 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4867 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4868 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4869 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4870 debian/README.debian.
4871 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4872 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4873 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4874 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4875 in a few situations.)
4877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4879 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4881 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4885 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4887 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4891 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4893 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4894 * Fixed several man pages.
4896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4898 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4900 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4901 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4902 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4906 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4908 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4909 is ready for general use.
4910 * Added man pages for all commands.
4911 * Multiple binary package support.
4912 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4913 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4914 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4916 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4917 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4918 auto-installed as parameters.
4919 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4921 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4924 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4925 the package build directory it is to act on.
4926 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4927 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4928 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4932 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4934 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4935 ready to replace debstd.
4937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400