1 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
4 undocumented.7 links anymore.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
8 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
10 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
11 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
12 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
13 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
14 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
17 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
19 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
21 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
22 files from installation.
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
26 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
29 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
30 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
34 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
36 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
37 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
41 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
44 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
48 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
54 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
60 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
64 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
65 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
67 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
71 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
73 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
74 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
75 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
76 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
77 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
81 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
83 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
84 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
88 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
91 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
92 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
96 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
100 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
105 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
111 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
115 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
116 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
117 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
122 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
124 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
125 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
126 practice. Closes: #163303
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
130 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
136 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
143 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
145 * The "reverse hangover" release.
146 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
148 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
149 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
150 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
151 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
152 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
156 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
158 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
159 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
164 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
170 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
177 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
180 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
185 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
187 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
191 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
197 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
199 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
203 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
210 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
212 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
213 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
214 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
215 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
216 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
221 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
223 * Typo, Closes: #155323
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
227 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
234 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
236 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
237 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
238 * Removed dh_installxaw.
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
242 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
244 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
245 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
246 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
247 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
248 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
249 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
253 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
256 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
258 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
263 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
265 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
266 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
270 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
273 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
274 right thing. Closes: #150644
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
278 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
281 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
285 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
287 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
292 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
295 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
296 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
301 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
307 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
309 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
310 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
314 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
317 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
318 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
323 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
326 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
330 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
336 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
339 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
340 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
344 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
350 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
352 * Removing perl warning message.
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
356 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
358 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
359 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
360 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
361 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
362 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
363 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
364 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
365 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
366 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
370 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
376 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
378 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
383 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
386 debconf-mergetemplate.
387 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
388 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
392 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
395 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
396 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
397 dh_install, which ...
398 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
399 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
400 mess, as it uses debian/install.
401 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
402 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
403 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
404 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
405 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
406 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
407 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
408 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
409 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
410 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
411 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
413 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
414 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
415 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
416 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
417 course there's -X ..)
418 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
419 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
420 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
422 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
423 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
424 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
425 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
426 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
431 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
437 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
439 * Typo, Closes: #139176
440 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
444 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
446 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
450 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
456 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
462 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
468 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
471 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
472 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
473 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
474 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
476 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
477 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
481 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
483 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
487 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
489 * Typo, Closes: #132454
490 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
494 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
497 upset. Closes: #131322
499 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
501 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
504 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
505 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
506 line, as well as in debian/rules.
507 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
508 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
509 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
510 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
511 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
512 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
513 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
514 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
515 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
516 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
517 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
518 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
520 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
524 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
527 - Better indenting of generated code.
528 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
532 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
534 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
536 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
537 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
538 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
539 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
540 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
541 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
542 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
546 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
549 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
553 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
556 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
557 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
558 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
559 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
560 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
561 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
562 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
563 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
564 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
565 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
566 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
567 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
568 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
569 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
570 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
575 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
577 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
581 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
583 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
584 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
585 * fixed dh_testdir man page
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
589 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Typo, Closes: #122679
592 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
593 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
597 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
603 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
606 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
607 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
608 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
609 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
610 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
615 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
617 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
621 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
624 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
628 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
631 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
636 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
638 * Typo, Closes: #114135
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
642 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
645 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
649 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
655 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
657 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
659 Also some indentation fixes.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
663 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
666 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
667 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
668 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
669 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
670 Closes: #106514, #85520
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
674 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Typo, Closes: #104405
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
680 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
682 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
686 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
688 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
692 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
694 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
698 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
704 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
707 change it in debhelper v4..
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
711 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
717 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
719 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
720 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
724 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
726 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
727 is not essential. Closes: #100430
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
731 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
737 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
740 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
741 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
742 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
743 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
744 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
745 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
746 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
747 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
748 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
749 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
750 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
751 prefixed with ".debhelper")
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
755 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
758 look just like shared libs, but are not.
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
762 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
769 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
772 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
773 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
774 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
775 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
776 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
777 program those options go to. So, for example,
778 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
779 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
780 something complex. Closes: #89311
781 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
785 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
788 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
789 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
790 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
794 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
796 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
797 through loop. Closes: #98598
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
801 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Missing semi-colon.
804 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
805 this (dh_* should be called, really).
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
809 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
812 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
813 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
814 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
818 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
820 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
821 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
822 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
826 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
828 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
829 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
833 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
836 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
837 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
841 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
844 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
845 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
846 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
850 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
853 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
854 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
855 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
859 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
861 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
862 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
866 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
868 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
872 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Typo, Closes: #92407
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
878 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
884 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
886 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
890 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
892 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
893 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
897 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
900 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
901 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
902 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
903 followed. Closes: #85483
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
907 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
909 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
910 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
911 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
915 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
918 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
919 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
920 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
921 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
922 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
923 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
924 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
925 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
926 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
927 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
928 Closes: #88464, #77743
929 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
930 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
931 us to deal with that gracefully.
932 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
934 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
935 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
936 a while, Closes: #51225
938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
940 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
946 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
949 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
953 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
957 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
962 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
965 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
966 don't make packlist files.
967 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
968 debhelper coding standards.
969 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
970 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
974 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
976 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
977 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
981 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
984 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
985 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
986 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
987 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
988 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
989 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
990 but is mildly deprecated.
991 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
992 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
993 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
994 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
995 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
996 switching to statoverrides..
997 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
998 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
999 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1000 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1001 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1002 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1004 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1005 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1006 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1007 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1008 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1009 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1010 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1011 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1012 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1014 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1015 variable names, pod man pages).
1016 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1017 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1018 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1019 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1020 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1021 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1022 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1026 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1032 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1039 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1042 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1046 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1048 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1049 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1050 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1054 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1056 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1057 they were previously ignored.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1061 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1063 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1064 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1068 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1070 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1071 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1072 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1076 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1078 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1082 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1084 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1085 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1089 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1091 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1092 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1093 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1094 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1095 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1096 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1097 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1098 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1099 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1100 it is an obsolete program.
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1104 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1106 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1110 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1114 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1116 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1120 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1122 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1124 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1126 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1130 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1136 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * typo: Closes, #78567
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1142 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1148 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1154 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1157 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1158 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1159 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1160 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1161 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1165 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1168 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1173 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1176 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1177 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1178 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1179 backwards-compatability.
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1183 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1186 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1187 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1188 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1189 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1190 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1191 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1193 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1194 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1195 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1197 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1199 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1200 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1201 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1202 should now be raised to severity important..
1203 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1204 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1208 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1211 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1216 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1222 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1228 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1234 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1241 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1244 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1245 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1246 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1247 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1251 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1257 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1260 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1261 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1262 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1263 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1264 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1265 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1270 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1273 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1277 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1283 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1285 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1286 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1291 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1294 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1295 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1296 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1297 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1301 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1305 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1308 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1311 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1312 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1315 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1317 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1318 the TODO entry about it.
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1322 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1329 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1332 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1333 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1337 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1340 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1341 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1342 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1343 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1347 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1353 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1360 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1363 (this appears to be logal).
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1367 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1370 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1371 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1372 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1373 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1377 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1383 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1386 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1387 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1388 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1389 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1393 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1399 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1402 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1406 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1413 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1416 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1417 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1418 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1423 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1430 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1436 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1439 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1440 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1441 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1442 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1443 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1444 notice until v2 is complete.
1445 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1446 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1447 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1448 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1449 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1450 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1452 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1453 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1454 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1455 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1459 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1465 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1467 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1472 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1475 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1479 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1486 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1489 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1490 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1491 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1492 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1500 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1501 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1502 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1507 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1510 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1511 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1515 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1518 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1522 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1525 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1529 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1531 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1536 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1539 depend on the build and install targets.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1543 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1546 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1550 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1557 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1563 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1569 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1571 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1572 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1573 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1574 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1575 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1576 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1577 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1579 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1580 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1581 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1582 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1583 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1584 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1585 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1589 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1595 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1601 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1604 right place. Closes: #55065
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1608 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1615 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1617 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1618 * Copyright date updates.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1622 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1625 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1630 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1636 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1643 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1649 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1655 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1661 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1664 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1665 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1666 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1667 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1668 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1669 bits until all files have been registered.
1671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1673 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * dh_installmanpages:
1676 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1677 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1678 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1679 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1680 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1681 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1682 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1683 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1684 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1685 otherwise change the result at all.
1687 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1688 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1689 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1690 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1691 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1696 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1702 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1705 act on files that don't exist.
1706 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1707 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1708 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1710 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1711 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1712 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1713 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1717 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1723 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1729 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1732 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1736 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1739 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1741 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1742 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1743 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1747 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1750 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1751 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1752 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1753 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1754 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1755 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1756 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1758 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1760 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1764 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1771 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1777 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1783 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1786 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1790 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1796 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1802 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1805 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1806 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1807 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1808 I made some changes, though:
1809 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1810 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1811 that is a clear violation of policy.
1812 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1813 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1814 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1815 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1816 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1817 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1818 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1819 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1820 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1822 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1826 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1832 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1835 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1839 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1842 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1843 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1848 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1854 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1861 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1864 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1865 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1866 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1867 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1868 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1869 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1870 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1874 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1880 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1884 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1885 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1889 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1895 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1898 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1902 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1905 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1906 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1910 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1912 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1917 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1921 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1925 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1928 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1929 for the dependancies to be generated.
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1933 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1936 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1940 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1943 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1944 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1945 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1950 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1953 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1954 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1958 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1964 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1970 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1973 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1977 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1983 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1986 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1987 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1988 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1989 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1990 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1991 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1992 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1993 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1994 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1995 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1996 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1997 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2001 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2004 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2005 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2007 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2008 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2009 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2010 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2011 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2012 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2014 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2015 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2019 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2022 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2026 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2033 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2036 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2041 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2044 for building debhelper.
2045 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2049 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2056 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2059 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2063 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2066 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2067 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2068 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2069 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2070 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2071 it's always available.
2073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2075 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2077 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2078 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2079 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2080 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2084 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2087 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2088 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2092 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2098 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2101 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2105 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2111 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2114 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2115 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2116 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2120 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2123 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2128 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2131 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2132 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2134 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2135 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2139 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2145 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2151 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2154 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2158 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2161 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2162 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2164 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2168 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2171 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2172 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2173 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2177 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2180 things if CDPATH is set.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2184 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2190 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2193 seems to make sense for the transition.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2197 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2200 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2205 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2208 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2209 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2213 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2216 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2220 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2223 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2224 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2225 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2226 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2230 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2236 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2239 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2240 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2241 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2242 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2243 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2244 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2245 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2246 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2247 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2248 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2253 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2256 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2257 * README: mention doc/v2
2258 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2259 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2263 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2265 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2266 be using this script RSN.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2270 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2273 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2274 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2275 more than 1 init script.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2279 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2282 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2286 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Changed perl version detection.
2289 * Changed call to find.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2293 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2296 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2298 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2303 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Really include dh_installpam.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2309 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2312 * Wrote man page for same.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2316 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2319 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2320 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2325 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2332 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2335 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2336 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2337 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2338 x bit was being set!
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2342 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2345 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2346 well. (Closes: 38900)
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2350 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2353 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2354 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2358 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2364 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2371 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2377 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2380 help from Julian Gilbey.
2381 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2382 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2383 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2384 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2385 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2386 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2387 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2392 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2398 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2405 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2411 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2417 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2420 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2424 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2427 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2431 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2434 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2438 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2444 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2447 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2451 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2457 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2463 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2466 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2467 may be deleted. (#35845)
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2471 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * Various man page enhancements.
2474 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2479 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2482 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2483 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2487 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2490 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2491 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2492 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2494 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2495 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2500 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2506 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * Another very minor typo fix.
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2512 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Very minor typo fix.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2518 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2521 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2522 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2526 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2532 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2535 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2536 variables properly (#34850).
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2540 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2546 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2549 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2550 (automatically generated by build process).
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2554 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2556 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2560 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2563 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2564 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2566 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2570 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2573 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2577 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * README: minor typo fix.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2583 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2586 leave it at that. :-)
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2590 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2596 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2602 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2605 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2606 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2607 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2611 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2614 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2618 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2621 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2625 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2628 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2629 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2630 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2631 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2635 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2637 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2638 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2639 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2640 Craig Small for spotting this.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2644 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2647 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2648 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2652 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2658 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2661 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2665 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2667 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2668 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2669 working on the last version of debhelper.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2673 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2676 being made. (#23255)
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2680 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2686 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2689 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2693 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2696 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2697 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2698 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2699 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2703 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2706 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2707 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2708 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2709 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2711 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2712 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2714 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2719 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2725 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2731 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2734 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2735 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2736 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2737 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2738 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2739 suidregister actually supports it.
2740 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2741 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2745 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2752 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2755 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2756 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2757 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2758 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2759 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2760 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2761 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2765 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2767 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2768 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2772 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2775 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2776 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2777 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2778 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2782 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2785 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2787 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2788 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2789 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2790 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2791 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2792 effect, either. (#30118)
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2796 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2802 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2805 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2806 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2810 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2816 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2819 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2820 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2821 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2822 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2826 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2829 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2830 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2834 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2840 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2843 packages, painlessly.
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2847 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2853 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2859 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2861 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2865 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * The perl conversion is complete.
2869 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2871 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2872 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2873 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2878 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2881 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2882 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2883 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2887 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2890 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2892 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2894 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2895 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2899 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2902 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2903 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2907 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2913 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2916 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2917 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2918 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2919 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2920 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2924 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2927 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2928 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2929 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2930 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2934 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2937 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2941 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2944 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2945 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2946 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2947 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2948 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2949 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2950 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2951 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2955 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2961 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2964 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2965 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2966 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2971 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2974 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2978 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2981 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2985 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2988 sections of shared libraries.
2989 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2990 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2991 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2992 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2993 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2994 things you don't want them to.
2995 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2996 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3000 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3003 shared libraries. (#26414)
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3007 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3009 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3010 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3011 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3012 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3016 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3020 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3022 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3023 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3024 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3025 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3026 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3030 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3033 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3037 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3040 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3041 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3046 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3049 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3053 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3056 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3057 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3058 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3059 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3060 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3062 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3063 remove debian/files properly.
3064 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3065 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3066 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3067 * Removed bogus menu file.
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3071 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3074 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3078 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3081 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3082 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3083 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3084 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3085 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3086 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3090 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3093 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3094 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3095 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3096 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3100 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3107 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3110 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3111 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3113 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3114 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3115 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3116 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3117 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3118 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3122 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3125 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3126 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3127 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3128 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3129 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3130 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3131 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3132 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3133 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3134 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3135 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3136 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3137 passed any switches.
3138 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3142 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3145 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3146 at all for a long while.
3147 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3148 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3149 large chunks in the process.
3150 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3151 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3152 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3157 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3160 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3162 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3167 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3170 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3171 that don't always have the same files in them.
3172 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3173 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3174 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3178 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3182 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3183 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3184 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3185 updating 27 man pages.
3186 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3187 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3188 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3189 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3190 programs act on. (#25247)
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3194 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3198 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3199 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3200 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3201 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3202 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3203 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3208 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3215 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3222 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3225 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3229 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3235 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3238 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3239 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3240 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3241 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3242 package by accident.
3243 * Is version 1.0 next?
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3247 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3250 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3251 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3255 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3258 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3259 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3260 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3261 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3262 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3264 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3269 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3272 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3273 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3277 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3280 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3284 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3287 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3288 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3293 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3299 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3302 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3303 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3308 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3314 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3317 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3318 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3319 past week. Thanks, guys!
3321 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3322 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3323 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3324 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3325 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3326 would do in the same situation.
3327 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3328 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3330 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3332 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3333 permissions changed.
3334 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3335 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3336 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3337 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3338 files are treated identically.
3339 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3340 * Minor man page fixes.
3341 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3342 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3343 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3347 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3350 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3351 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3352 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3353 use -X multiple times, too.
3354 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3355 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3359 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3361 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3362 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3363 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3367 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3370 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3374 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3376 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3377 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3378 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3379 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3380 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3381 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3382 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3383 shape if you're starting a new package.
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3387 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3390 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3394 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3397 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3398 because of missing symlinks.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3402 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3408 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3411 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3412 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3413 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3414 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3415 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3417 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3418 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3422 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3424 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3425 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3426 to be changed after the fact :-)
3427 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3431 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3433 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3434 no version string after the -V.
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3438 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3440 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3441 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3446 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3449 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3453 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3456 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3457 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3458 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3459 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3460 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3461 I always welcome corrections!
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3465 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3471 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3474 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3475 * Documented this new switch.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3479 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3482 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3483 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3484 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3485 no packages use the old behavior.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3489 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3492 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3493 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3497 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3499 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3500 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3504 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3510 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3513 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3517 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3520 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3521 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3522 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3526 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3532 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3535 into the source package by accident.
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3539 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3542 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3543 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3544 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3545 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3546 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3547 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3552 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3556 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3557 inspired to implement some of it.
3558 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3562 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3565 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3569 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3571 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3572 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3573 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3577 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3579 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3580 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3581 have done.) (#17598)
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3585 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3591 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3597 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3600 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3604 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3607 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3608 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3612 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3615 argument processor in perl.
3616 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3617 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3618 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3619 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3623 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3625 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3626 type directories. (#16933)
3627 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3628 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3629 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3630 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3631 are supported. (#16935)
3632 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3637 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3640 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3644 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3648 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3649 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3650 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3651 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3652 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3653 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3657 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3660 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3661 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3663 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3664 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3665 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3666 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3667 a given package, or -i or -a.
3668 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3669 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3670 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3671 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3672 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3673 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3674 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3675 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3676 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3678 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3679 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3680 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3684 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3687 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3688 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3693 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3696 does not have a section.
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3700 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3703 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3704 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3705 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3709 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Fixed typo #16215.
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3715 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3718 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3719 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3720 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3721 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3722 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3727 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3730 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3731 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3732 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3737 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3743 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3749 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3752 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3753 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3754 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3755 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3756 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3757 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3761 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3763 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3767 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3769 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3770 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3774 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3776 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3777 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3778 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3779 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3783 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3786 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3790 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3796 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3799 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3803 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3806 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3810 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3816 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3818 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3819 postinst, postrm, etc.
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3823 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3829 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3832 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3833 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3834 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3835 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3836 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3840 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3843 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3844 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3848 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3850 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3851 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3855 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3858 installing package files into.
3859 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3864 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3868 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3872 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3874 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3878 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3880 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3881 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3885 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3887 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3888 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3889 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3890 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3891 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3895 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3897 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3898 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3899 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3900 multiple binary packages.
3901 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3902 should rebuild them with this version.
3903 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3907 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3909 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3910 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3914 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3916 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3917 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3921 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3924 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3925 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3926 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3927 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3928 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3929 debian/README.debian.
3930 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3931 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3932 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3933 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3934 in a few situations.)
3936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3938 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3940 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3944 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3950 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3952 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3953 * Fixed several man pages.
3955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3957 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3959 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3960 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3961 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3965 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3968 is ready for general use.
3969 * Added man pages for all commands.
3970 * Multiple binary package support.
3971 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3972 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3973 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3975 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3976 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3977 auto-installed as parameters.
3978 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3980 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3983 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3984 the package build directory it is to act on.
3985 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3986 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3987 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3991 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3993 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3994 ready to replace debstd.
3996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400