1 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
8 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
11 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
16 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
18 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
22 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
28 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
34 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
41 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
44 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
45 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
46 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
47 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
52 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Typo, Closes: #155323
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
58 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
65 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
68 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
69 * Removed dh_installxaw.
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
73 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
76 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
77 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
78 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
79 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
80 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
84 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
86 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
87 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
89 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
94 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
96 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
97 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
101 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
104 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
105 right thing. Closes: #150644
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
109 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
116 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
118 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
123 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
126 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
127 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
132 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
134 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
138 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
141 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
145 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
147 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
148 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
149 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
154 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
156 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
157 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
161 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
167 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
170 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
171 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
175 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
181 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Removing perl warning message.
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
187 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
190 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
191 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
192 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
193 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
194 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
195 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
196 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
197 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
201 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
207 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
214 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
216 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
217 debconf-mergetemplate.
218 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
219 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
223 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
226 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
227 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
228 dh_install, which ...
229 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
230 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
231 mess, as it uses debian/install.
232 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
233 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
234 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
235 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
236 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
237 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
238 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
239 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
240 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
241 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
242 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
244 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
245 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
246 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
247 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
248 course there's -X ..)
249 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
250 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
251 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
253 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
254 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
255 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
256 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
257 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
262 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
268 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Typo, Closes: #139176
271 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
275 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
281 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
287 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
293 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
299 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
302 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
303 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
304 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
305 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
307 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
308 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
312 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
318 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Typo, Closes: #132454
321 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
325 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
328 upset. Closes: #131322
330 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
332 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
334 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
335 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
336 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
337 line, as well as in debian/rules.
338 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
339 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
340 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
341 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
342 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
343 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
344 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
345 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
346 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
347 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
348 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
349 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
351 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
355 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
358 - Better indenting of generated code.
359 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
363 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
367 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
368 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
369 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
370 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
371 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
372 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
373 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
377 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
380 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
384 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
386 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
387 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
388 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
389 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
390 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
391 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
392 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
393 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
394 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
395 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
396 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
397 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
398 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
399 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
400 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
401 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
406 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
408 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
412 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
414 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
415 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
416 * fixed dh_testdir man page
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
420 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
422 * Typo, Closes: #122679
423 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
424 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
428 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
434 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
437 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
438 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
439 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
440 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
441 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
446 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
448 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
452 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
455 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
459 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
462 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
467 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Typo, Closes: #114135
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
473 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
475 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
476 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
480 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
486 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
490 Also some indentation fixes.
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
494 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
497 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
498 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
499 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
500 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
501 Closes: #106514, #85520
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
505 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Typo, Closes: #104405
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
511 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
513 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
517 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
519 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
523 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
525 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
529 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
535 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
538 change it in debhelper v4..
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
542 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
548 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
551 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
555 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
558 is not essential. Closes: #100430
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
562 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
568 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
571 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
572 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
573 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
574 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
575 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
576 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
577 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
578 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
579 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
580 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
581 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
582 prefixed with ".debhelper")
584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
586 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
588 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
589 look just like shared libs, but are not.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
593 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
600 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
602 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
603 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
604 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
605 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
606 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
607 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
608 program those options go to. So, for example,
609 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
610 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
611 something complex. Closes: #89311
612 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
616 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
619 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
620 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
621 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
625 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
628 through loop. Closes: #98598
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
632 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Missing semi-colon.
635 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
636 this (dh_* should be called, really).
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
640 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
642 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
643 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
644 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
645 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
649 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
652 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
653 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
657 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
660 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
664 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
667 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
668 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
672 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
675 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
676 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
677 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
681 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
684 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
685 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
686 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
690 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
693 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
697 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
703 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
705 * Typo, Closes: #92407
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
709 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
711 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
715 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
717 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
721 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
724 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
728 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
730 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
731 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
732 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
733 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
734 followed. Closes: #85483
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
738 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
740 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
741 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
742 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
746 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
748 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
749 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
750 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
751 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
752 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
753 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
754 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
755 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
756 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
757 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
758 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
759 Closes: #88464, #77743
760 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
761 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
762 us to deal with that gracefully.
763 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
765 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
766 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
767 a while, Closes: #51225
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
771 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
777 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
780 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
784 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
788 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
793 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
795 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
796 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
797 don't make packlist files.
798 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
799 debhelper coding standards.
800 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
801 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
805 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
807 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
808 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
812 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
814 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
815 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
816 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
817 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
818 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
819 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
820 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
821 but is mildly deprecated.
822 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
823 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
824 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
825 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
826 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
827 switching to statoverrides..
828 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
829 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
830 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
831 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
832 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
833 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
835 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
836 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
837 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
838 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
839 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
840 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
841 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
842 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
843 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
845 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
846 variable names, pod man pages).
847 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
848 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
849 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
850 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
851 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
852 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
853 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
857 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
863 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
865 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
870 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
872 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
873 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
877 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
879 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
880 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
881 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
885 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
887 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
888 they were previously ignored.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
892 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
894 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
895 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
899 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
901 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
902 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
903 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
907 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
909 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
913 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
915 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
916 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
920 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
922 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
923 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
924 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
925 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
926 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
927 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
928 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
929 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
930 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
931 it is an obsolete program.
933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
935 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
937 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
941 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
945 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
947 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
951 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
953 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
955 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
957 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
961 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
967 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
969 * typo: Closes, #78567
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
973 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
979 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
985 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
987 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
988 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
989 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
990 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
991 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
992 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
996 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
999 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1004 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1007 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1008 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1009 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1010 backwards-compatability.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1014 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1017 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1018 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1019 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1020 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1021 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1022 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1024 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1025 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1026 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1028 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1030 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1031 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1032 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1033 should now be raised to severity important..
1034 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1035 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1039 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1042 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1047 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1053 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1059 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1065 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1072 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1074 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1075 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1076 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1077 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1078 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1082 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1088 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1091 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1092 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1093 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1094 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1095 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1096 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1101 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1104 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1108 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1114 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1117 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1122 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1125 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1126 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1127 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1128 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1132 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1136 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1139 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1141 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1142 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1143 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1146 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1148 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1149 the TODO entry about it.
1151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1153 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1160 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1162 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1163 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1164 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1168 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1171 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1172 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1173 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1174 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1178 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1184 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1191 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1194 (this appears to be logal).
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1198 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1201 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1202 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1203 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1204 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1208 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1214 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1217 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1218 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1219 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1220 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1224 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1230 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1233 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1237 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1244 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1247 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1248 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1249 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1254 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1261 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1267 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1270 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1271 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1272 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1273 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1274 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1275 notice until v2 is complete.
1276 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1277 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1278 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1279 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1280 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1281 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1283 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1284 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1285 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1286 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1290 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1296 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1303 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1306 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1310 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1317 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1320 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1321 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1322 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1323 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1328 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1331 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1332 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1333 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1338 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1341 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1342 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1346 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1349 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1353 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1356 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1360 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1367 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1370 depend on the build and install targets.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1374 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1377 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1381 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1388 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1394 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1400 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1403 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1404 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1405 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1406 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1407 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1408 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1410 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1411 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1412 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1413 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1414 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1415 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1416 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1420 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1426 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1432 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1435 right place. Closes: #55065
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1439 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1446 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1449 * Copyright date updates.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1453 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1456 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1461 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1467 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1474 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1480 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1486 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1492 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1495 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1496 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1497 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1498 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1499 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1500 bits until all files have been registered.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1504 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_installmanpages:
1507 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1508 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1509 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1510 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1511 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1512 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1513 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1514 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1515 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1516 otherwise change the result at all.
1518 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1519 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1520 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1521 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1522 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1527 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1533 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1536 act on files that don't exist.
1537 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1538 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1539 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1541 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1542 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1543 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1544 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1548 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1554 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1560 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1563 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1567 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1570 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1572 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1573 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1574 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1578 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1581 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1582 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1583 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1584 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1585 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1586 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1587 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1589 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1591 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1595 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1602 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1608 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1614 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1617 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1621 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1623 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1627 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1633 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1636 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1637 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1638 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1639 I made some changes, though:
1640 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1641 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1642 that is a clear violation of policy.
1643 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1644 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1645 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1646 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1647 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1648 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1649 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1650 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1651 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1653 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1657 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1663 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1666 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1670 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1673 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1674 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1679 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1685 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1692 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1695 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1696 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1697 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1698 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1699 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1700 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1701 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1705 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1711 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1715 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1716 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1720 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1726 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1729 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1733 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1736 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1737 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1741 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1743 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1748 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1752 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1756 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1759 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1760 for the dependancies to be generated.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1764 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1767 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1771 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1774 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1775 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1776 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1781 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1784 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1785 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1789 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1795 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1801 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1804 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1808 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1814 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1817 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1818 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1819 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1820 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1821 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1822 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1823 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1824 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1825 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1826 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1827 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1828 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1832 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1835 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1836 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1838 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1839 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1840 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1841 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1842 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1843 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1845 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1846 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1850 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1853 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1857 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1864 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1867 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1872 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1875 for building debhelper.
1876 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1880 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1887 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1890 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1894 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1897 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1898 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1899 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1900 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1901 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1902 it's always available.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1906 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1909 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1910 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1911 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1915 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1918 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1919 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1923 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1929 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1932 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1936 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1942 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1945 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1946 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1947 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1951 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1954 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1959 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1962 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1963 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1965 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1966 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1970 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1976 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1982 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1985 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1989 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1991 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1992 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1993 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1995 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1999 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2002 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2003 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2004 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2008 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2011 things if CDPATH is set.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2015 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2021 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2024 seems to make sense for the transition.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2028 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2031 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2036 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2039 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2040 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2044 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2047 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2051 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2054 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2055 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2056 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2057 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2061 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2067 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2070 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2071 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2072 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2073 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2074 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2075 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2076 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2077 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2078 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2079 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2084 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2087 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2088 * README: mention doc/v2
2089 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2090 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2094 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2096 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2097 be using this script RSN.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2101 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2104 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2105 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2106 more than 1 init script.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2110 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2113 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2117 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Changed perl version detection.
2120 * Changed call to find.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2124 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2127 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2129 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2134 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Really include dh_installpam.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2140 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2143 * Wrote man page for same.
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2147 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2150 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2151 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2156 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2163 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2166 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2167 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2168 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2169 x bit was being set!
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2173 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2176 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2177 well. (Closes: 38900)
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2181 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2184 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2185 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2189 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2195 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2197 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2202 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2208 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2211 help from Julian Gilbey.
2212 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2213 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2214 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2215 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2216 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2217 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2218 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2223 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2229 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2236 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2242 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2248 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2251 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2255 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2258 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2262 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2265 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2269 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2275 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2278 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2282 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2288 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2294 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2296 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2297 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2298 may be deleted. (#35845)
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2302 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Various man page enhancements.
2305 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2310 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2313 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2314 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2318 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2321 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2322 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2323 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2325 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2326 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2331 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2337 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Another very minor typo fix.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2343 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Very minor typo fix.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2349 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2352 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2353 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2357 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2363 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2366 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2367 variables properly (#34850).
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2371 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2377 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2380 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2381 (automatically generated by build process).
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2385 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2387 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2391 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2394 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2395 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2397 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2401 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2404 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2408 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * README: minor typo fix.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2414 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2417 leave it at that. :-)
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2421 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2427 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2433 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2436 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2437 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2438 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2442 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2445 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2449 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2452 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2456 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2459 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2460 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2461 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2462 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2466 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2469 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2470 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2471 Craig Small for spotting this.
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2475 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2478 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2479 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2483 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2489 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2492 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2496 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2498 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2499 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2500 working on the last version of debhelper.
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2504 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2507 being made. (#23255)
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2511 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2517 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2520 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2524 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2527 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2528 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2529 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2530 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2534 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2537 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2538 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2539 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2540 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2542 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2543 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2545 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2550 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2556 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2562 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2565 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2566 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2567 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2568 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2569 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2570 suidregister actually supports it.
2571 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2572 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2576 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2583 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2586 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2587 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2588 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2589 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2590 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2591 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2592 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2596 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2598 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2599 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2603 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2606 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2607 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2608 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2609 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2613 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2616 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2618 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2619 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2620 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2621 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2622 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2623 effect, either. (#30118)
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2627 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2633 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2636 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2637 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2641 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2647 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2650 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2651 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2652 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2653 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2657 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2660 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2661 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2665 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2671 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2674 packages, painlessly.
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2678 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2684 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2690 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2696 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * The perl conversion is complete.
2700 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2702 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2703 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2704 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2709 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2712 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2713 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2714 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2718 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2721 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2723 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2725 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2726 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2730 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2733 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2734 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2738 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2744 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2747 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2748 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2749 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2750 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2751 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2755 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2758 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2759 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2760 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2761 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2765 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2768 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2772 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2775 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2776 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2777 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2778 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2779 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2780 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2781 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2782 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2786 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2792 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2795 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2796 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2797 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2802 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2805 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2809 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2812 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2816 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2819 sections of shared libraries.
2820 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2821 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2822 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2823 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2824 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2825 things you don't want them to.
2826 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2827 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2831 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2834 shared libraries. (#26414)
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2838 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2840 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2841 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2842 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2843 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2847 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2851 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2853 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2854 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2855 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2856 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2857 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2861 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2864 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2868 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2871 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2872 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2877 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2880 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2884 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2887 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2888 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2889 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2890 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2891 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2893 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2894 remove debian/files properly.
2895 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2896 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2897 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2898 * Removed bogus menu file.
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2902 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2905 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2909 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2912 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2913 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2914 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2915 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2916 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2917 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2921 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2924 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2925 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2926 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2927 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2931 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2938 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2941 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2942 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2944 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2945 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2946 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2947 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2948 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2949 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2953 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2956 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2957 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2958 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2959 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2960 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2961 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2962 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2963 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2964 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2965 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2966 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2967 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2968 passed any switches.
2969 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2973 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2976 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2977 at all for a long while.
2978 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2979 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2980 large chunks in the process.
2981 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2982 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2983 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2988 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2991 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2993 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2998 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3001 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3002 that don't always have the same files in them.
3003 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3004 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3005 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3009 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3013 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3014 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3015 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3016 updating 27 man pages.
3017 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3018 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3019 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3020 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3021 programs act on. (#25247)
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3025 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3029 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3030 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3031 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3032 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3033 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3034 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3039 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3046 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3053 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3056 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3060 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3066 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3069 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3070 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3071 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3072 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3073 package by accident.
3074 * Is version 1.0 next?
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3078 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3081 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3082 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3086 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3089 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3090 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3091 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3092 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3093 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3095 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3100 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3103 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3104 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3108 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3111 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3115 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3117 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3118 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3119 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3124 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3130 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3133 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3134 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3139 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3145 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3148 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3149 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3150 past week. Thanks, guys!
3152 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3153 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3154 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3155 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3156 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3157 would do in the same situation.
3158 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3159 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3161 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3163 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3164 permissions changed.
3165 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3166 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3167 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3168 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3169 files are treated identically.
3170 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3171 * Minor man page fixes.
3172 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3173 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3174 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3178 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3181 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3182 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3183 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3184 use -X multiple times, too.
3185 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3186 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3190 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3193 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3194 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3198 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3201 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3205 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3208 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3209 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3210 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3211 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3212 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3213 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3214 shape if you're starting a new package.
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3218 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3221 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3225 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3227 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3228 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3229 because of missing symlinks.
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3233 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3239 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3242 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3243 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3244 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3245 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3246 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3248 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3249 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3253 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3255 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3256 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3257 to be changed after the fact :-)
3258 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3262 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3265 no version string after the -V.
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3269 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3271 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3272 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3277 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3280 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3284 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3287 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3288 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3289 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3290 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3291 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3292 I always welcome corrections!
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3296 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3302 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3305 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3306 * Documented this new switch.
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3310 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3313 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3314 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3315 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3316 no packages use the old behavior.
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3320 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3323 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3324 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3328 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3331 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3335 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3341 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3344 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3348 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3351 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3352 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3353 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3357 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3363 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3366 into the source package by accident.
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3370 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3373 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3374 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3375 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3376 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3377 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3378 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3383 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3387 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3388 inspired to implement some of it.
3389 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3393 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3396 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3400 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3403 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3404 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3408 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3410 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3411 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3412 have done.) (#17598)
3414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3416 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3418 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3422 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3428 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3431 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3435 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3438 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3439 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3443 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3446 argument processor in perl.
3447 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3448 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3449 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3450 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3454 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3457 type directories. (#16933)
3458 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3459 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3460 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3461 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3462 are supported. (#16935)
3463 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3468 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3471 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3475 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3479 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3480 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3481 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3482 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3483 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3484 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3488 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3491 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3492 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3494 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3495 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3496 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3497 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3498 a given package, or -i or -a.
3499 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3500 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3501 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3502 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3503 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3504 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3505 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3506 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3507 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3509 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3510 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3511 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3515 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3518 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3519 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3524 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3526 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3527 does not have a section.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3531 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3533 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3534 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3535 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3536 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3540 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Fixed typo #16215.
3544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3546 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3548 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3549 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3550 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3551 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3552 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3553 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3558 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3561 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3562 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3563 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3568 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3574 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3580 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3583 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3584 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3585 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3586 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3587 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3588 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3592 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3598 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3600 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3601 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3605 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3608 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3609 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3610 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3614 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3617 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3621 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3627 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3630 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3634 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3637 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3641 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3647 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3649 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3650 postinst, postrm, etc.
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3654 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3660 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3663 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3664 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3665 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3666 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3667 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3671 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3673 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3674 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3675 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3679 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3682 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3686 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3689 installing package files into.
3690 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3695 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3697 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3699 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3703 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3705 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3709 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3712 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3716 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3719 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3720 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3721 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3722 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3726 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3728 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3729 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3730 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3731 multiple binary packages.
3732 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3733 should rebuild them with this version.
3734 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3738 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3740 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3741 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3745 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3748 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3752 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3755 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3756 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3757 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3758 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3759 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3760 debian/README.debian.
3761 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3762 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3763 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3764 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3765 in a few situations.)
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3769 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3775 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3781 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3784 * Fixed several man pages.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3788 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3791 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3792 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3796 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3799 is ready for general use.
3800 * Added man pages for all commands.
3801 * Multiple binary package support.
3802 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3803 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3804 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3806 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3807 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3808 auto-installed as parameters.
3809 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3811 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3814 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3815 the package build directory it is to act on.
3816 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3817 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3818 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3822 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3824 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3825 ready to replace debstd.
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400