1 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
4 but occasionally right and necessary.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
8 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
11 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
12 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
13 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
14 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
15 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937a
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
19 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
21 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
22 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
24 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
25 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
26 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
27 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
28 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
29 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
30 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
31 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
32 postinst scripts for udebs.
33 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
35 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
37 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
39 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
40 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
42 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
43 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
47 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
53 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
55 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
60 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
67 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
70 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
74 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
77 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
81 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
84 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
87 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
88 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
92 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
98 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
101 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
105 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
108 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
109 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
110 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
112 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
114 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
115 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
116 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
120 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
123 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
128 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
131 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
132 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
133 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
138 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
144 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
150 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
153 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
154 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
155 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
156 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
157 associated -dbg packages.
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
161 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
164 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
168 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
171 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
175 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
178 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
182 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
184 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
185 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
190 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
192 * Typo. Closes: #207999
193 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
197 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
200 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
205 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
207 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
208 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
212 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
216 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
217 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
218 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
219 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
220 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
221 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
222 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
223 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
224 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
225 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
229 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
231 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
232 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
237 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
239 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
240 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
241 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
245 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
248 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
249 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
254 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
256 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
257 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
261 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
264 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
268 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
271 out section number. Closes: #204731
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
275 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
277 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
282 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
284 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
288 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
290 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
294 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Typo, Closes: #203907
297 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
298 removal. Closes: #204286
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
302 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
305 renaming. Closes: #203548
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
309 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
312 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
313 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
317 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
319 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
323 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
329 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
335 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
338 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
339 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
340 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
344 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
346 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
347 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
348 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
352 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
358 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
360 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
365 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
367 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
368 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
373 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
376 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
380 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
383 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
385 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
386 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
390 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
393 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
398 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
401 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
405 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
407 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
411 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
413 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
417 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
420 it break hard links (see #188663).
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
424 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
426 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
427 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
431 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
437 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
441 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
442 debconf-mergetemplates
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
446 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
449 pod2man. Closes: #184013
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
453 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
456 * Typo, Closes: #183267
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
460 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
463 * Update debhelper(1).
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
467 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
469 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
470 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
471 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
472 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
473 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
474 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
478 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
481 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
482 the shell. Closes: #178524
483 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
487 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
489 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
490 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
494 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
496 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
497 undocumented.7 links anymore.
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
501 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
503 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
504 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
505 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
506 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
507 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
512 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
515 files from installation.
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
519 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
521 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
522 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
523 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
527 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
529 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
530 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
534 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
537 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
541 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
547 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
553 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
557 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
558 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
560 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
564 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
567 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
568 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
569 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
570 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
574 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
576 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
577 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
581 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
584 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
585 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
589 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
593 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
598 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
604 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
606 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
608 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
609 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
610 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
615 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
618 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
619 practice. Closes: #163303
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
623 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
629 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
636 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
638 * The "reverse hangover" release.
639 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
641 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
642 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
643 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
644 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
645 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
649 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
652 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
657 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
663 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
670 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
673 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
678 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
680 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
684 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
690 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
696 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
698 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
703 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
705 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
706 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
707 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
708 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
709 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
714 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Typo, Closes: #155323
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
720 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
727 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
730 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
731 * Removed dh_installxaw.
733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
735 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
737 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
738 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
739 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
740 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
741 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
742 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
746 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
749 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
751 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
756 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
758 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
759 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
763 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
766 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
767 right thing. Closes: #150644
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
771 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
778 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
780 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
785 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
788 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
789 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
794 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
800 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
802 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
803 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
807 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
810 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
811 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
816 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
819 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
823 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
829 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
832 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
833 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
837 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
843 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Removing perl warning message.
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
849 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
851 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
852 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
853 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
854 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
855 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
856 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
857 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
858 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
859 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
863 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
869 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
876 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
878 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
879 debconf-mergetemplate.
880 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
881 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
885 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
888 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
889 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
890 dh_install, which ...
891 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
892 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
893 mess, as it uses debian/install.
894 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
895 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
896 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
897 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
898 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
899 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
900 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
901 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
902 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
903 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
904 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
906 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
907 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
908 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
909 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
910 course there's -X ..)
911 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
912 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
913 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
915 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
916 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
917 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
918 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
919 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
924 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
930 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Typo, Closes: #139176
933 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
937 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
943 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
945 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
949 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
955 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
961 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
964 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
965 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
966 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
967 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
969 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
970 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
974 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
980 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Typo, Closes: #132454
983 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
987 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
989 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
990 upset. Closes: #131322
992 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
994 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
997 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
998 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
999 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1000 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1001 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1002 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1003 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1004 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1005 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1006 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1007 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1008 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1009 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1010 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1011 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1013 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1017 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1019 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1020 - Better indenting of generated code.
1021 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1025 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1029 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1030 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1031 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1032 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1033 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1034 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1035 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1039 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1042 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1046 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1049 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1050 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1051 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1052 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1053 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1054 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1055 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1056 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1057 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1058 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1059 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1060 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1061 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1062 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1063 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1068 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1074 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1077 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1078 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1082 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1085 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1086 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1090 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1096 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1099 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1100 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1101 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1102 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1103 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1108 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1114 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1117 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1121 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1124 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1129 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1135 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1138 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1142 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1148 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1152 Also some indentation fixes.
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1156 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1159 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1160 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1161 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1162 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1163 Closes: #106514, #85520
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1167 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1173 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1179 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1185 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1187 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1191 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1197 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1200 change it in debhelper v4..
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1204 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1210 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1213 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1217 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1220 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1224 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1230 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1233 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1234 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1235 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1236 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1237 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1238 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1239 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1240 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1241 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1242 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1243 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1244 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1248 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1251 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1255 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1262 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1265 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1266 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1267 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1268 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1269 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1270 program those options go to. So, for example,
1271 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1272 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1273 something complex. Closes: #89311
1274 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1278 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1281 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1282 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1283 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1287 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1290 through loop. Closes: #98598
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1294 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Missing semi-colon.
1297 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1298 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1302 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1305 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1306 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1307 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1311 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1314 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1315 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1319 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1321 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1322 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1326 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1329 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1330 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1334 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1337 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1338 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1339 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1343 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1346 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1347 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1348 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1352 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1355 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1359 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1365 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1371 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1377 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1383 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1386 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1390 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1393 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1394 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1395 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1396 followed. Closes: #85483
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1400 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1402 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1403 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1404 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1408 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1411 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1412 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1413 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1414 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1415 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1416 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1417 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1418 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1419 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1420 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1421 Closes: #88464, #77743
1422 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1423 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1424 us to deal with that gracefully.
1425 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1427 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1428 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1429 a while, Closes: #51225
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1433 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1439 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1442 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1446 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1450 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1455 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1458 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1459 don't make packlist files.
1460 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1461 debhelper coding standards.
1462 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1463 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1467 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1470 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1474 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1477 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1478 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1479 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1480 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1481 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1482 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1483 but is mildly deprecated.
1484 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1485 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1486 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1487 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1488 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1489 switching to statoverrides..
1490 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1491 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1492 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1493 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1494 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1495 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1497 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1498 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1499 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1500 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1501 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1502 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1503 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1504 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1505 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1507 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1508 variable names, pod man pages).
1509 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1510 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1511 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1512 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1513 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1514 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1515 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1519 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1525 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1532 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1535 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1539 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1541 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1542 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1543 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1547 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1549 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1550 they were previously ignored.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1554 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1556 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1557 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1561 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1563 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1564 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1565 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1569 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1571 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1575 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1577 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1578 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1582 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1584 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1585 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1586 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1587 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1588 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1589 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1590 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1591 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1592 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1593 it is an obsolete program.
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1597 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1599 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1603 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1607 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1609 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1613 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1615 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1617 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1619 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1623 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1629 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * typo: Closes, #78567
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1635 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1641 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1647 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1650 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1651 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1652 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1653 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1654 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1658 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1661 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1666 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1668 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1669 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1670 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1671 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1672 backwards-compatability.
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1676 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1679 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1680 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1681 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1682 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1683 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1684 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1686 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1687 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1688 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1690 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1692 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1693 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1694 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1695 should now be raised to severity important..
1696 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1697 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1701 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1704 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1709 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1715 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1721 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1727 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1734 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1737 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1738 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1739 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1740 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1744 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1750 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1753 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1754 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1755 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1756 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1757 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1758 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1763 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1766 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1770 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1776 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1779 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1784 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1787 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1788 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1789 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1790 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1794 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1798 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1801 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1804 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1805 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1808 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1810 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1811 the TODO entry about it.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1822 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1825 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1826 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1830 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1833 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1834 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1835 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1836 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1840 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1846 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1853 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1856 (this appears to be logal).
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1860 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1863 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1864 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1865 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1866 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1870 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1876 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1879 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1880 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1881 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1882 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1886 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1892 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1895 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1899 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1906 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1909 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1910 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1911 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1916 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1923 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1929 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1932 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1933 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1934 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1935 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1936 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1937 notice until v2 is complete.
1938 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1939 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1940 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1941 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1942 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1943 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1945 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1946 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1947 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1948 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1952 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1958 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1965 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1968 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1972 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1979 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1982 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1983 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1984 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1985 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1990 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1993 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1994 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1995 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2000 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2003 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2004 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2008 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2011 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2015 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2018 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2022 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2029 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2032 depend on the build and install targets.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2036 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2039 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2043 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2045 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2050 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2056 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2062 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2065 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2066 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2067 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2068 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2069 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2070 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2072 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2073 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2074 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2075 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2076 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2077 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2078 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2082 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2084 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2088 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2094 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2097 right place. Closes: #55065
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2101 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2108 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2111 * Copyright date updates.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2115 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2118 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2123 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2129 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2136 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2142 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2148 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2154 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2157 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2158 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2159 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2160 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2161 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2162 bits until all files have been registered.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2166 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_installmanpages:
2169 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2170 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2171 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2172 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2173 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2174 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2175 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2176 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2177 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2178 otherwise change the result at all.
2180 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2181 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2182 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2183 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2184 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2189 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2195 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2198 act on files that don't exist.
2199 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2200 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2201 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2203 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2204 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2205 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2206 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2210 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2216 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2222 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2225 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2229 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2232 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2234 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2235 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2236 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2240 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2243 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2244 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2245 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2246 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2247 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2248 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2249 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2251 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2253 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2257 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2264 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2270 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2276 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2279 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2283 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2289 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2295 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2298 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2299 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2300 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2301 I made some changes, though:
2302 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2303 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2304 that is a clear violation of policy.
2305 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2306 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2307 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2308 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2309 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2310 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2311 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2312 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2313 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2315 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2319 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2325 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2328 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2332 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2335 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2336 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2341 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2347 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2349 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2354 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2357 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2358 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2359 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2360 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2361 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2362 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2363 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2367 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2373 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2377 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2378 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2382 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2388 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2391 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2395 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2398 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2399 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2403 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2405 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2410 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2414 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2418 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2421 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2422 for the dependancies to be generated.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2426 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2429 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2433 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2436 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2437 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2438 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2443 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2446 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2447 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2451 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2457 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2463 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2466 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2470 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2476 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2479 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2480 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2481 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2482 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2483 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2484 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2485 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2486 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2487 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2488 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2489 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2490 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2494 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2497 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2498 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2500 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2501 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2502 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2503 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2504 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2505 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2507 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2508 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2512 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2515 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2519 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2526 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2529 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2534 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2537 for building debhelper.
2538 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2542 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2549 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2552 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2556 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2559 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2560 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2561 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2562 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2563 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2564 it's always available.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2568 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2571 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2572 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2573 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2577 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2580 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2581 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2585 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2591 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2594 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2598 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2604 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2607 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2608 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2609 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2613 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2616 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2621 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2624 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2625 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2627 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2628 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2632 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2634 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2638 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2644 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2647 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2651 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2654 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2655 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2657 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2661 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2664 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2665 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2666 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2670 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2673 things if CDPATH is set.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2677 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2683 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2686 seems to make sense for the transition.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2690 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2693 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2698 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2701 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2702 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2706 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2709 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2713 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2716 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2717 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2718 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2719 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2723 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2729 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2732 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2733 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2734 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2735 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2736 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2737 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2738 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2739 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2740 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2741 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2746 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2749 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2750 * README: mention doc/v2
2751 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2752 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2756 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2758 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2759 be using this script RSN.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2763 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2766 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2767 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2768 more than 1 init script.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2772 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2775 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2779 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * Changed perl version detection.
2782 * Changed call to find.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2786 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2789 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2791 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2796 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Really include dh_installpam.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2802 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2805 * Wrote man page for same.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2809 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2812 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2813 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2818 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2825 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2828 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2829 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2830 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2831 x bit was being set!
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2835 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2838 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2839 well. (Closes: 38900)
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2843 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2846 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2847 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2851 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2857 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2864 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2870 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2873 help from Julian Gilbey.
2874 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2875 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2876 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2877 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2878 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2879 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2880 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2885 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2891 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2898 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2904 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2910 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2913 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2917 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2920 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2924 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2927 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2931 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2937 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2940 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2944 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2950 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2956 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2959 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2960 may be deleted. (#35845)
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2964 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Various man page enhancements.
2967 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2972 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2975 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2976 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2980 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2982 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2983 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2984 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2985 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2987 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2988 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2993 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2999 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * Another very minor typo fix.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3005 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * Very minor typo fix.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3011 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3014 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3015 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3019 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3025 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3028 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3029 variables properly (#34850).
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3033 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3039 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3042 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3043 (automatically generated by build process).
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3047 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3049 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3053 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3056 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3057 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3059 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3063 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3066 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3070 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * README: minor typo fix.
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3076 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3079 leave it at that. :-)
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3083 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3089 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3095 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3098 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3099 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3100 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3104 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3107 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3111 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3114 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3118 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3121 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3122 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3123 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3124 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3128 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3131 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3132 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3133 Craig Small for spotting this.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3137 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3140 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3141 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3145 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3151 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3154 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3158 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3160 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3161 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3162 working on the last version of debhelper.
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3166 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3169 being made. (#23255)
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3173 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3179 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3182 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3186 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3189 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3190 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3191 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3192 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3196 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3199 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3200 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3201 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3202 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3204 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3205 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3207 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3212 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3218 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3224 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3227 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3228 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3229 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3230 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3231 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3232 suidregister actually supports it.
3233 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3234 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3238 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3245 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3248 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3249 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3250 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3251 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3252 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3253 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3254 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3258 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3260 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3261 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3265 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3268 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3269 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3270 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3271 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3275 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3278 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3280 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3281 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3282 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3283 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3284 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3285 effect, either. (#30118)
3287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3289 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3291 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3295 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3298 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3299 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3303 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3309 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3312 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3313 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3314 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3315 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3319 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3322 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3323 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3327 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3333 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3336 packages, painlessly.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3340 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3346 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3352 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3358 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * The perl conversion is complete.
3362 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3364 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3365 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3366 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3371 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3374 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3375 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3376 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3380 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3383 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3385 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3387 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3388 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3392 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3395 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3396 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3400 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3406 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3409 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3410 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3411 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3412 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3413 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3417 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3420 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3421 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3422 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3423 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3427 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3430 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3434 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3437 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3438 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3439 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3440 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3441 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3442 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3443 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3444 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3448 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3454 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3457 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3458 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3459 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3464 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3467 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3471 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3474 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3478 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3481 sections of shared libraries.
3482 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3483 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3484 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3485 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3486 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3487 things you don't want them to.
3488 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3489 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3493 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3496 shared libraries. (#26414)
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3500 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3502 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3503 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3504 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3505 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3509 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3513 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3515 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3516 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3517 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3518 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3519 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3523 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3526 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3530 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3533 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3534 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3539 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3542 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3546 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3549 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3550 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3551 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3552 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3553 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3555 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3556 remove debian/files properly.
3557 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3558 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3559 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3560 * Removed bogus menu file.
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3564 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3567 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3571 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3574 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3575 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3576 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3577 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3578 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3579 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3583 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3586 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3587 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3588 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3589 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3593 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3600 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3603 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3604 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3606 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3607 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3608 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3609 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3610 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3611 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3615 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3618 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3619 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3620 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3621 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3622 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3623 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3624 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3625 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3626 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3627 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3628 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3629 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3630 passed any switches.
3631 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3635 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3638 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3639 at all for a long while.
3640 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3641 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3642 large chunks in the process.
3643 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3644 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3645 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3650 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3653 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3655 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3660 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3663 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3664 that don't always have the same files in them.
3665 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3666 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3667 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3671 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3675 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3676 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3677 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3678 updating 27 man pages.
3679 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3680 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3681 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3682 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3683 programs act on. (#25247)
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3687 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3691 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3692 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3693 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3694 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3695 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3696 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3701 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3708 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3715 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3718 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3722 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3728 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3731 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3732 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3733 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3734 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3735 package by accident.
3736 * Is version 1.0 next?
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3740 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3743 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3744 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3748 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3751 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3752 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3753 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3754 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3755 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3757 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3762 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3765 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3766 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3770 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3773 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3777 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3780 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3781 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3786 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3792 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3794 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3795 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3796 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3801 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3807 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3810 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3811 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3812 past week. Thanks, guys!
3814 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3815 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3816 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3817 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3818 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3819 would do in the same situation.
3820 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3821 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3823 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3825 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3826 permissions changed.
3827 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3828 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3829 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3830 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3831 files are treated identically.
3832 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3833 * Minor man page fixes.
3834 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3835 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3836 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3840 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3843 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3844 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3845 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3846 use -X multiple times, too.
3847 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3848 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3852 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3855 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3856 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3860 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3863 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3867 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3870 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3871 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3872 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3873 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3874 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3875 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3876 shape if you're starting a new package.
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3880 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3883 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3887 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3889 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3890 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3891 because of missing symlinks.
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3895 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3897 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3901 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3904 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3905 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3906 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3907 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3908 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3910 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3911 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3915 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3917 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3918 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3919 to be changed after the fact :-)
3920 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3924 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3926 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3927 no version string after the -V.
3929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3931 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3933 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3934 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3939 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3942 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3946 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3948 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3949 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3950 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3951 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3952 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3953 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3954 I always welcome corrections!
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3958 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3964 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3967 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3968 * Documented this new switch.
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3972 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3974 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3975 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3976 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3977 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3978 no packages use the old behavior.
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3982 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3985 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3986 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3990 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3992 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3993 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3997 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3999 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4003 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4006 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4010 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4013 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4014 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4015 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4019 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4025 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4028 into the source package by accident.
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4032 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4035 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4036 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4037 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4038 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4039 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4040 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4045 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4049 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4050 inspired to implement some of it.
4051 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4055 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4058 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4062 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4065 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4066 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4070 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4072 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4073 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4074 have done.) (#17598)
4076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4078 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4080 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4084 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4086 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4090 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4093 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4097 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4100 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4101 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4105 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4108 argument processor in perl.
4109 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4110 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4111 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4112 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4116 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4119 type directories. (#16933)
4120 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4121 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4122 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4123 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4124 are supported. (#16935)
4125 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4130 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4132 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4133 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4137 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4141 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4142 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4143 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4144 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4145 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4146 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4150 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4153 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4154 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4156 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4157 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4158 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4159 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4160 a given package, or -i or -a.
4161 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4162 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4163 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4164 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4165 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4166 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4167 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4168 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4169 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4171 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4172 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4173 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4177 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4179 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4180 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4181 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4186 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4189 does not have a section.
4191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4193 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4195 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4196 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4197 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4198 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4202 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4204 * Fixed typo #16215.
4206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4208 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4210 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4211 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4212 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4213 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4214 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4215 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4220 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4222 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4223 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4224 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4225 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4230 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4236 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4238 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4242 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4244 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4245 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4246 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4247 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4248 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4249 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4250 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4254 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4260 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4262 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4263 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4267 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4269 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4270 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4271 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4272 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4276 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4278 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4279 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4283 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4285 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4289 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4292 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4296 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4298 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4299 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4303 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4309 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4311 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4312 postinst, postrm, etc.
4314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4316 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4318 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4322 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4324 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4325 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4326 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4327 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4328 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4329 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4333 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4335 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4336 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4337 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4341 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4343 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4344 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4348 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4350 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4351 installing package files into.
4352 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4357 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4361 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4365 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4371 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4373 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4374 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4378 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4381 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4382 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4383 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4384 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4388 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4390 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4391 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4392 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4393 multiple binary packages.
4394 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4395 should rebuild them with this version.
4396 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4400 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4402 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4403 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4407 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4409 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4410 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4414 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4416 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4417 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4418 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4419 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4420 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4421 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4422 debian/README.debian.
4423 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4424 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4425 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4426 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4427 in a few situations.)
4429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4431 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4433 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4437 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4439 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4443 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4445 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4446 * Fixed several man pages.
4448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4450 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4452 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4453 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4454 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4458 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4460 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4461 is ready for general use.
4462 * Added man pages for all commands.
4463 * Multiple binary package support.
4464 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4465 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4466 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4468 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4469 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4470 auto-installed as parameters.
4471 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4473 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4476 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4477 the package build directory it is to act on.
4478 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4479 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4480 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4484 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4486 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4487 ready to replace debstd.
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400