1 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
4 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
9 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
12 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
16 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
19 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
21 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
22 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
26 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
29 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
34 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
37 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
41 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
47 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
49 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
53 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
55 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
56 it break hard links (see #188663).
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
60 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
63 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
67 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
73 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
77 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
78 debconf-mergetemplates
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
82 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
85 pod2man. Closes: #184013
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
89 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
92 * Typo, Closes: #183267
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
96 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
99 * Update debhelper(1).
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
103 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
105 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
106 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
107 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
108 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
109 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
110 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
114 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
117 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
118 the shell. Closes: #178524
119 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
123 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
126 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
130 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
133 undocumented.7 links anymore.
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
137 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
139 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
140 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
141 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
142 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
143 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
148 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
150 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
151 files from installation.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
155 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
158 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
159 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
163 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
166 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
170 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
173 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
177 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
183 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
185 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
189 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
193 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
194 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
196 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
200 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
203 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
204 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
205 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
206 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
210 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
212 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
213 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
217 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
220 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
221 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
225 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
229 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
234 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
236 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
240 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
244 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
245 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
246 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
251 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
254 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
255 practice. Closes: #163303
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
259 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
261 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
265 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
267 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
272 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
274 * The "reverse hangover" release.
275 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
277 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
278 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
279 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
280 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
281 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
285 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
287 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
288 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
293 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
299 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
306 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
309 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
314 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
320 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
326 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
332 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
339 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
342 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
343 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
344 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
345 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
350 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
352 * Typo, Closes: #155323
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
356 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
363 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
366 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
367 * Removed dh_installxaw.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
371 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
373 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
374 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
375 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
376 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
377 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
378 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
382 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
385 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
387 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
392 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
394 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
395 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
399 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
401 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
402 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
403 right thing. Closes: #150644
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
407 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
414 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
416 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
421 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
424 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
425 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
430 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
432 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
436 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
439 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
443 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
445 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
446 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
447 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
452 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
454 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
455 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
459 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
461 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
465 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
467 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
468 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
469 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
473 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
475 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
479 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Removing perl warning message.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
485 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
488 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
489 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
490 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
491 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
492 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
493 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
494 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
495 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
499 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
505 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
507 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
512 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
514 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
515 debconf-mergetemplate.
516 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
517 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
521 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
523 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
524 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
525 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
526 dh_install, which ...
527 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
528 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
529 mess, as it uses debian/install.
530 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
531 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
532 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
533 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
534 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
535 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
536 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
537 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
538 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
539 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
540 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
542 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
543 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
544 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
545 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
546 course there's -X ..)
547 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
548 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
549 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
551 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
552 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
553 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
554 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
555 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
560 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
566 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Typo, Closes: #139176
569 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
573 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
579 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
585 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
591 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
593 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
597 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
600 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
601 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
602 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
603 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
605 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
606 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
610 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
612 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
616 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Typo, Closes: #132454
619 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
623 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
625 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
626 upset. Closes: #131322
628 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
630 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
633 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
634 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
635 line, as well as in debian/rules.
636 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
637 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
638 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
639 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
640 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
641 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
642 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
643 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
644 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
645 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
646 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
647 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
649 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
653 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
655 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
656 - Better indenting of generated code.
657 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
661 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
663 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
665 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
666 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
667 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
668 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
669 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
670 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
671 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
675 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
678 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
682 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
685 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
686 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
687 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
688 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
689 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
690 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
691 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
692 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
693 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
694 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
695 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
696 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
697 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
698 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
699 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
704 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
710 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
712 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
713 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
714 * fixed dh_testdir man page
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
718 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Typo, Closes: #122679
721 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
722 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
726 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
732 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
735 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
736 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
737 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
738 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
739 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
744 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
746 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
750 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
753 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
757 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
760 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
765 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Typo, Closes: #114135
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
771 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
774 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
778 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
780 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
784 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
788 Also some indentation fixes.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
792 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
795 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
796 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
797 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
798 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
799 Closes: #106514, #85520
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
803 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Typo, Closes: #104405
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
809 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
815 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
817 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
821 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
827 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
833 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
836 change it in debhelper v4..
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
840 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
846 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
849 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
853 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
856 is not essential. Closes: #100430
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
860 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
866 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
869 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
870 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
871 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
872 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
873 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
874 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
875 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
876 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
877 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
878 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
879 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
880 prefixed with ".debhelper")
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
884 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
887 look just like shared libs, but are not.
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
891 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
893 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
898 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
901 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
902 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
903 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
904 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
905 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
906 program those options go to. So, for example,
907 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
908 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
909 something complex. Closes: #89311
910 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
914 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
916 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
917 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
918 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
919 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
923 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
925 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
926 through loop. Closes: #98598
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
930 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Missing semi-colon.
933 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
934 this (dh_* should be called, really).
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
938 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
941 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
942 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
943 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
947 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
950 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
951 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
955 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
958 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
962 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
965 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
966 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
970 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
972 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
973 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
974 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
975 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
979 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
982 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
983 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
984 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
988 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
991 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
995 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1001 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1007 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1013 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1019 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1022 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1026 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1029 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1030 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1031 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1032 followed. Closes: #85483
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1036 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1038 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1039 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1040 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1044 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1047 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1048 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1049 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1050 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1051 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1052 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1053 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1054 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1055 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1056 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1057 Closes: #88464, #77743
1058 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1059 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1060 us to deal with that gracefully.
1061 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1063 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1064 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1065 a while, Closes: #51225
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1069 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1075 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1078 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1082 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1086 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1091 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1094 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1095 don't make packlist files.
1096 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1097 debhelper coding standards.
1098 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1099 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1103 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1106 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1110 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1113 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1114 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1115 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1116 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1117 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1118 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1119 but is mildly deprecated.
1120 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1121 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1122 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1123 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1124 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1125 switching to statoverrides..
1126 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1127 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1128 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1129 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1130 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1131 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1133 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1134 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1135 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1136 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1137 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1138 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1139 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1140 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1141 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1143 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1144 variable names, pod man pages).
1145 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1146 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1147 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1148 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1149 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1150 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1151 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1155 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1161 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1168 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1171 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1175 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1177 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1178 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1179 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1183 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1185 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1186 they were previously ignored.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1190 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1192 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1193 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1197 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1199 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1200 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1201 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1205 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1207 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1211 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1213 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1214 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1218 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1220 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1221 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1222 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1223 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1224 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1225 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1226 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1227 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1228 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1229 it is an obsolete program.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1233 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1235 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1239 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1243 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1245 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1249 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1251 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1253 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1255 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1259 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1265 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * typo: Closes, #78567
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1271 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1277 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1283 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1286 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1287 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1288 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1289 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1290 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1294 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1297 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1302 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1305 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1306 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1307 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1308 backwards-compatability.
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1312 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1315 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1316 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1317 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1318 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1319 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1320 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1322 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1323 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1324 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1326 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1328 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1329 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1330 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1331 should now be raised to severity important..
1332 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1333 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1337 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1340 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1345 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1351 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1357 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1363 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1370 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1372 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1373 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1374 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1375 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1376 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1380 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1386 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1389 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1390 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1391 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1392 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1393 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1394 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1399 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1402 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1406 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1412 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1415 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1420 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1423 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1424 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1425 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1426 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1430 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1434 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1437 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1440 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1441 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1444 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1446 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1447 the TODO entry about it.
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1451 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1458 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1461 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1462 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1466 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1469 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1470 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1471 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1472 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1476 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1482 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1492 (this appears to be logal).
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1496 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1499 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1500 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1501 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1502 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1506 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1512 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1514 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1515 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1516 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1517 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1518 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1522 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1528 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1531 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1535 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1542 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1545 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1546 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1547 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1552 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1559 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1565 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1568 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1569 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1570 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1571 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1572 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1573 notice until v2 is complete.
1574 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1575 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1576 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1577 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1578 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1579 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1581 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1582 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1583 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1584 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1588 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1594 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1601 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1604 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1608 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1615 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1618 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1619 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1620 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1621 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1626 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1629 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1630 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1631 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1636 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1639 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1640 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1644 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1647 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1651 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1654 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1658 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1665 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1668 depend on the build and install targets.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1672 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1675 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1679 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1686 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1692 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1698 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1701 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1702 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1703 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1704 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1705 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1706 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1708 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1709 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1710 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1711 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1712 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1713 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1714 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1718 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1724 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1730 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1733 right place. Closes: #55065
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1737 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1744 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1747 * Copyright date updates.
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1751 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1754 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1759 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1765 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1767 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1772 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1778 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1784 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1790 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1793 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1794 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1795 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1796 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1797 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1798 bits until all files have been registered.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1802 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_installmanpages:
1805 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1806 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1807 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1808 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1809 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1810 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1811 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1812 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1813 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1814 otherwise change the result at all.
1816 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1817 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1818 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1819 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1820 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1825 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1831 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1834 act on files that don't exist.
1835 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1836 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1837 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1839 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1840 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1841 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1842 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1846 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1852 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1858 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1861 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1865 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1868 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1870 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1871 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1872 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1876 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1879 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1880 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1881 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1882 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1883 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1884 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1885 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1887 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1889 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1893 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1900 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1906 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1912 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1915 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1919 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1925 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1931 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1934 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1935 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1936 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1937 I made some changes, though:
1938 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1939 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1940 that is a clear violation of policy.
1941 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1942 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1943 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1944 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1945 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1946 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1947 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1948 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1949 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1951 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1955 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1961 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1964 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1968 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1971 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1972 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1977 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1983 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1990 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1993 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1994 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1995 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1996 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1997 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1998 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1999 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2003 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2009 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2013 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2014 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2018 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2024 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2027 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2031 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2034 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2035 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2039 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2041 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2046 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2050 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2054 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2057 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2058 for the dependancies to be generated.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2062 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2065 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2069 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2072 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2073 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2074 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2079 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2082 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2083 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2087 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2093 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2099 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2102 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2106 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2112 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2115 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2116 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2117 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2118 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2119 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2120 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2121 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2122 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2123 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2124 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2125 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2126 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2130 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2133 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2134 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2136 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2137 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2138 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2139 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2140 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2141 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2143 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2144 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2148 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2151 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2155 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2162 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2165 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2170 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2173 for building debhelper.
2174 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2178 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2185 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2188 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2192 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2195 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2196 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2197 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2198 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2199 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2200 it's always available.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2204 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2207 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2208 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2209 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2213 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2216 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2217 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2221 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2227 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2230 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2234 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2240 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2243 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2244 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2245 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2249 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2252 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2257 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2260 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2261 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2263 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2264 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2268 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2270 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2274 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2280 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2283 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2287 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2289 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2290 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2291 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2293 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2297 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2300 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2301 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2302 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2306 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2309 things if CDPATH is set.
2311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2313 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2315 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2319 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2322 seems to make sense for the transition.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2326 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2329 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2334 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2337 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2338 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2342 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2345 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2349 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2352 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2353 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2354 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2355 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2359 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2365 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2368 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2369 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2370 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2371 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2372 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2373 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2374 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2375 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2376 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2377 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2382 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2385 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2386 * README: mention doc/v2
2387 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2388 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2392 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2394 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2395 be using this script RSN.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2399 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2402 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2403 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2404 more than 1 init script.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2408 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2411 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2415 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Changed perl version detection.
2418 * Changed call to find.
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2422 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2425 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2427 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2432 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * Really include dh_installpam.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2438 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2441 * Wrote man page for same.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2445 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2448 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2449 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2454 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2461 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2464 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2465 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2466 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2467 x bit was being set!
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2471 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2474 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2475 well. (Closes: 38900)
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2479 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2482 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2483 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2487 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2493 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2500 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2506 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2509 help from Julian Gilbey.
2510 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2511 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2512 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2513 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2514 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2515 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2516 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2521 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2523 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2527 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2534 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2540 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2546 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2549 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2553 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2556 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2560 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2563 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2567 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2573 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2576 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2580 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2586 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2592 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2595 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2596 may be deleted. (#35845)
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2600 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * Various man page enhancements.
2603 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2608 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2611 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2612 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2616 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2619 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2620 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2621 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2623 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2624 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2629 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2635 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * Another very minor typo fix.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2641 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Very minor typo fix.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2647 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2650 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2651 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2655 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2661 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2664 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2665 variables properly (#34850).
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2669 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2675 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2678 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2679 (automatically generated by build process).
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2683 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2685 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2689 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2692 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2693 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2695 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2699 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2702 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2706 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * README: minor typo fix.
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2712 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2715 leave it at that. :-)
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2719 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2725 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2731 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2734 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2735 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2736 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2740 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2743 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2747 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2750 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2754 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2757 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2758 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2759 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2760 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2764 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2767 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2768 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2769 Craig Small for spotting this.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2773 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2776 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2777 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2781 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2787 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2790 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2794 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2796 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2797 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2798 working on the last version of debhelper.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2802 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2805 being made. (#23255)
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2809 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2815 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2818 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2822 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2825 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2826 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2827 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2828 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2832 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2835 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2836 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2837 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2838 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2840 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2841 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2843 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2848 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2854 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2860 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2863 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2864 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2865 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2866 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2867 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2868 suidregister actually supports it.
2869 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2870 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2874 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2881 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2884 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2885 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2886 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2887 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2888 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2889 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2890 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2894 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2896 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2897 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2901 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2904 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2905 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2906 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2907 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2911 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2914 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2916 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2917 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2918 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2919 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2920 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2921 effect, either. (#30118)
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2925 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2931 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2934 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2935 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2939 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2945 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2948 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2949 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2950 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2951 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2955 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2958 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2959 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2963 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2965 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2969 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2972 packages, painlessly.
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2976 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2982 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2988 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2994 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * The perl conversion is complete.
2998 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3000 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3001 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3002 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3007 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3010 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3011 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3012 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3016 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3019 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3021 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3023 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3024 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3028 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3031 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3032 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3036 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3042 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3045 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3046 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3047 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3048 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3049 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3053 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3056 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3057 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3058 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3059 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3063 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3065 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3066 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3070 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3072 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3073 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3074 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3075 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3076 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3077 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3078 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3079 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3080 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3084 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3090 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3093 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3094 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3095 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3100 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3103 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3107 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3110 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3114 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3117 sections of shared libraries.
3118 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3119 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3120 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3121 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3122 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3123 things you don't want them to.
3124 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3125 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3129 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3131 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3132 shared libraries. (#26414)
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3136 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3138 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3139 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3140 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3141 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3145 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3149 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3151 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3152 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3153 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3154 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3155 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3159 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3162 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3166 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3169 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3170 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3175 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3178 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3182 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3185 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3186 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3187 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3188 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3189 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3191 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3192 remove debian/files properly.
3193 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3194 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3195 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3196 * Removed bogus menu file.
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3200 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3203 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3207 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3210 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3211 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3212 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3213 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3214 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3215 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3219 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3221 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3222 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3223 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3224 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3225 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3229 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3236 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3239 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3240 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3242 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3243 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3244 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3245 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3246 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3247 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3251 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3254 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3255 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3256 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3257 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3258 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3259 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3260 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3261 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3262 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3263 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3264 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3265 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3266 passed any switches.
3267 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3271 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3274 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3275 at all for a long while.
3276 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3277 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3278 large chunks in the process.
3279 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3280 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3281 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3286 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3289 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3291 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3296 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3299 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3300 that don't always have the same files in them.
3301 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3302 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3303 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3307 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3311 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3312 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3313 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3314 updating 27 man pages.
3315 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3316 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3317 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3318 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3319 programs act on. (#25247)
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3323 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3327 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3328 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3329 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3330 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3331 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3332 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3337 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3344 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3351 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3354 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3358 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3364 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3367 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3368 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3369 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3370 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3371 package by accident.
3372 * Is version 1.0 next?
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3376 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3379 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3380 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3384 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3387 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3388 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3389 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3390 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3391 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3393 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3398 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3400 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3401 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3402 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3406 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3409 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3413 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3416 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3417 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3422 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3428 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3431 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3432 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3437 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3443 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3446 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3447 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3448 past week. Thanks, guys!
3450 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3451 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3452 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3453 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3454 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3455 would do in the same situation.
3456 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3457 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3459 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3461 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3462 permissions changed.
3463 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3464 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3465 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3466 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3467 files are treated identically.
3468 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3469 * Minor man page fixes.
3470 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3471 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3472 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3476 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3478 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3479 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3480 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3481 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3482 use -X multiple times, too.
3483 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3484 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3488 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3491 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3492 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3496 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3499 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3503 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3506 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3507 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3508 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3509 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3510 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3511 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3512 shape if you're starting a new package.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3516 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3519 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3523 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3526 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3527 because of missing symlinks.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3531 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3537 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3539 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3540 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3541 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3542 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3543 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3544 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3546 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3547 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3551 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3553 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3554 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3555 to be changed after the fact :-)
3556 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3560 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3562 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3563 no version string after the -V.
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3567 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3569 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3570 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3575 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3578 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3582 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3584 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3585 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3586 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3587 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3588 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3589 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3590 I always welcome corrections!
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3594 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3600 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3603 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3604 * Documented this new switch.
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3608 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3611 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3612 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3613 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3614 no packages use the old behavior.
3616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3618 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3620 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3621 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3622 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3626 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3629 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3633 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3639 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3642 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3646 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3649 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3650 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3651 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3655 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3661 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3664 into the source package by accident.
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3668 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3671 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3672 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3673 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3674 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3675 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3676 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3681 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3685 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3686 inspired to implement some of it.
3687 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3691 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3694 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3698 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3701 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3702 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3706 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3708 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3709 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3710 have done.) (#17598)
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3714 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3720 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3726 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3728 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3729 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3733 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3736 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3737 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3741 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3744 argument processor in perl.
3745 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3746 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3747 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3748 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3752 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3755 type directories. (#16933)
3756 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3757 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3758 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3759 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3760 are supported. (#16935)
3761 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3766 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3768 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3769 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3773 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3775 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3777 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3778 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3779 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3780 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3781 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3782 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3786 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3789 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3790 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3792 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3793 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3794 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3795 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3796 a given package, or -i or -a.
3797 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3798 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3799 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3800 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3801 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3802 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3803 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3804 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3805 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3807 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3808 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3809 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3813 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3815 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3816 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3817 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3822 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3825 does not have a section.
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3829 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3832 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3833 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3834 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3838 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * Fixed typo #16215.
3842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3844 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3846 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3847 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3848 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3849 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3850 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3851 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3856 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3859 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3860 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3861 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3866 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3868 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3872 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3878 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3881 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3882 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3883 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3884 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3885 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3886 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3890 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3896 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3898 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3899 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3903 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3906 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3907 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3908 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3912 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3915 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3919 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3925 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3928 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3932 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3935 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3939 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3941 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3945 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3947 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3948 postinst, postrm, etc.
3950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3952 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3954 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3958 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3961 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3962 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3963 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3964 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3965 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3969 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3972 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3973 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3977 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3979 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3980 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3984 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3986 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3987 installing package files into.
3988 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3993 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3997 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4001 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4003 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4007 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4010 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4014 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4017 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4018 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4019 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4020 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4024 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4026 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4027 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4028 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4029 multiple binary packages.
4030 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4031 should rebuild them with this version.
4032 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4036 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4039 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4043 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4046 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4050 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4053 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4054 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4055 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4056 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4057 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4058 debian/README.debian.
4059 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4060 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4061 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4062 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4063 in a few situations.)
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4067 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4073 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4079 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4082 * Fixed several man pages.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4086 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4089 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4090 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4094 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4097 is ready for general use.
4098 * Added man pages for all commands.
4099 * Multiple binary package support.
4100 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4101 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4102 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4104 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4105 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4106 auto-installed as parameters.
4107 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4109 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4112 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4113 the package build directory it is to act on.
4114 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4115 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4116 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4120 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4122 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4123 ready to replace debstd.
4125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400