1 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
4 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
5 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
7 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
8 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
9 mess, as it uses debian/install.
10 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
11 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
12 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
13 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
14 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
15 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
16 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
17 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
18 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
19 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
20 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
22 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
23 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
24 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
25 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
27 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
28 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
29 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
31 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
32 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
33 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
34 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
35 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
40 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
46 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Typo, Closes: #139176
49 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
53 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
59 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
65 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
71 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
77 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
79 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
80 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
81 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
82 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
83 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
85 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
86 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
90 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
92 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
96 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Typo, Closes: #132454
99 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
103 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
106 upset. Closes: #131322
108 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
110 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
113 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
114 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
115 line, as well as in debian/rules.
116 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
117 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
118 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
119 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
120 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
121 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
122 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
123 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
124 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
125 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
126 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
127 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
129 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
133 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
135 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
136 - Better indenting of generated code.
137 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
141 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
143 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
145 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
146 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
147 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
148 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
149 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
150 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
151 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
155 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
158 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
162 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
165 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
166 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
167 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
168 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
169 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
170 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
171 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
172 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
173 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
174 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
175 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
176 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
177 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
178 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
179 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
184 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
190 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
192 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
193 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
194 * fixed dh_testdir man page
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
198 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
200 * Typo, Closes: #122679
201 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
202 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
206 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
212 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
215 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
216 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
217 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
218 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
219 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
224 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
226 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
230 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
233 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
237 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
239 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
240 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
245 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Typo, Closes: #114135
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
251 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
254 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
258 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
264 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
268 Also some indentation fixes.
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
272 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
275 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
276 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
277 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
278 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
279 Closes: #106514, #85520
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
283 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Typo, Closes: #104405
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
289 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
295 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
297 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
301 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
303 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
307 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
309 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
313 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
316 change it in debhelper v4..
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
320 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
326 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
328 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
329 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
333 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
336 is not essential. Closes: #100430
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
340 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
346 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
349 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
350 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
351 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
352 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
353 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
354 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
355 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
356 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
357 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
358 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
359 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
360 prefixed with ".debhelper")
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
364 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
367 look just like shared libs, but are not.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
371 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
378 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
381 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
382 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
383 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
384 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
385 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
386 program those options go to. So, for example,
387 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
388 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
389 something complex. Closes: #89311
390 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
394 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
396 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
397 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
398 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
399 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
403 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
406 through loop. Closes: #98598
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
410 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Missing semi-colon.
413 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
414 this (dh_* should be called, really).
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
418 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
421 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
422 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
423 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
427 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
430 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
431 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
435 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
438 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
442 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
445 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
446 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
450 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
453 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
454 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
455 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
459 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
462 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
463 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
464 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
468 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
471 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
475 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
477 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
481 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Typo, Closes: #92407
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
487 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
493 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
499 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
502 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
506 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
508 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
509 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
510 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
511 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
512 followed. Closes: #85483
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
516 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
518 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
519 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
520 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
524 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
526 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
527 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
528 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
529 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
530 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
531 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
532 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
533 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
534 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
535 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
536 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
537 Closes: #88464, #77743
538 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
539 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
540 us to deal with that gracefully.
541 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
543 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
544 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
545 a while, Closes: #51225
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
549 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
555 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
557 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
558 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
562 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
566 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
571 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
574 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
575 don't make packlist files.
576 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
577 debhelper coding standards.
578 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
579 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
583 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
586 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
590 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
593 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
594 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
595 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
596 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
597 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
598 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
599 but is mildly deprecated.
600 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
601 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
602 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
603 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
604 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
605 switching to statoverrides..
606 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
607 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
608 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
609 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
610 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
611 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
613 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
614 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
615 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
616 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
617 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
618 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
619 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
620 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
621 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
623 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
624 variable names, pod man pages).
625 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
626 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
627 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
628 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
629 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
630 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
631 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
635 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
637 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
641 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
648 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
651 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
655 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
657 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
658 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
659 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
663 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
665 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
666 they were previously ignored.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
670 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
672 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
673 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
677 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
679 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
680 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
681 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
685 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
687 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
691 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
693 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
694 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
698 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
700 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
701 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
702 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
703 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
704 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
705 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
706 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
707 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
708 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
709 it is an obsolete program.
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
713 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
715 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
719 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
721 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
723 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
725 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
729 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
731 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
733 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
735 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
739 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
745 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
747 * typo: Closes, #78567
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
751 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
757 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
759 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
763 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
765 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
766 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
767 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
768 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
769 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
770 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
774 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
777 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
782 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
785 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
786 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
787 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
788 backwards-compatability.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
792 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
794 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
795 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
796 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
797 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
798 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
799 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
800 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
802 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
803 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
804 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
806 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
808 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
809 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
810 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
811 should now be raised to severity important..
812 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
813 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
817 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
820 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
825 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Typo, Closes: #77441
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
831 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
833 * Completed the fix from the last version.
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
837 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
843 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
845 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
850 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
853 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
854 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
855 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
856 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
860 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
862 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
866 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
869 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
870 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
871 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
872 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
873 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
874 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
879 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
882 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
886 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
892 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
895 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
900 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
903 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
904 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
905 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
906 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
910 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
912 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
914 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
917 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
920 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
921 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
924 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
926 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
927 the TODO entry about it.
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
931 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
938 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
940 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
941 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
942 prevent that. Closes: #73052
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
946 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Typo, Closes: #72932
949 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
950 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
951 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
952 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
956 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
962 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
969 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
972 (this appears to be logal).
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
976 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
978 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
979 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
980 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
981 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
982 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
986 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
992 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
994 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
995 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
996 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
997 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
998 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1002 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1008 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1011 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1015 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1022 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1025 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1026 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1027 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1032 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1039 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1045 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1047 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1048 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1049 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1050 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1051 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1052 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1053 notice until v2 is complete.
1054 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1055 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1056 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1057 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1058 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1059 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1061 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1062 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1063 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1064 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1068 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1074 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1081 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1084 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1088 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1095 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1098 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1099 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1100 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1101 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1106 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1109 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1110 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1111 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1116 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1119 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1120 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1124 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1127 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1131 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1134 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1138 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1145 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1148 depend on the build and install targets.
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1152 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1155 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1159 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1166 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1172 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1178 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1181 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1182 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1183 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1184 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1185 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1186 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1188 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1189 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1190 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1191 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1192 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1193 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1194 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1198 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1204 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1210 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1213 right place. Closes: #55065
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1217 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1224 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1227 * Copyright date updates.
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1231 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1234 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1239 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1245 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1252 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1258 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1264 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1270 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1273 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1274 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1275 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1276 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1277 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1278 bits until all files have been registered.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1282 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_installmanpages:
1285 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1286 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1287 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1288 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1289 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1290 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1291 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1292 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1293 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1294 otherwise change the result at all.
1296 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1297 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1298 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1299 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1300 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1305 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1311 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1314 act on files that don't exist.
1315 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1316 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1317 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1319 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1320 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1321 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1322 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1326 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1332 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1338 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1341 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1345 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1348 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1350 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1351 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1352 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1356 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1359 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1360 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1361 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1362 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1363 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1364 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1365 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1367 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1369 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1373 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1380 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1386 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1392 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1395 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1399 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1405 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1411 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1413 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1414 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1415 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1416 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1417 I made some changes, though:
1418 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1419 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1420 that is a clear violation of policy.
1421 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1422 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1423 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1424 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1425 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1426 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1427 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1428 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1429 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1431 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1435 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1441 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1444 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1448 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1451 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1452 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1457 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1463 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1470 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1473 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1474 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1475 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1476 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1477 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1478 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1479 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1483 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1493 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1494 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1498 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1504 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1507 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1511 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1514 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1515 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1519 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1521 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1526 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1530 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1534 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1537 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1538 for the dependancies to be generated.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1542 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1545 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1549 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1552 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1553 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1554 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1559 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1562 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1563 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1567 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1573 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1579 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1582 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1586 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1592 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1595 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1596 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1597 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1598 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1599 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1600 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1601 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1602 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1603 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1604 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1605 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1606 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1610 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1613 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1614 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1616 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1617 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1618 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1619 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1620 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1621 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1623 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1624 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1628 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1631 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1635 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1642 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1645 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1650 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1653 for building debhelper.
1654 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1658 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1665 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1668 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1672 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1675 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1676 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1677 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1678 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1679 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1680 it's always available.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1684 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1687 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1688 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1689 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1693 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1696 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1697 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1701 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1707 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1710 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1714 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1720 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1723 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1724 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1725 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1729 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1732 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1737 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1740 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1741 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1743 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1744 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1748 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1754 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1760 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1763 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1767 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1770 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1771 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1773 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1777 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1780 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1781 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1782 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1786 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1789 things if CDPATH is set.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1793 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1799 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1802 seems to make sense for the transition.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1806 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1809 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1814 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1817 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1818 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1822 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1825 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1829 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1832 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1833 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1834 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1835 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1839 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1845 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1848 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1849 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1850 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1851 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1852 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1853 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1854 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1855 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1856 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1857 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1862 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1865 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1866 * README: mention doc/v2
1867 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1868 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1872 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1874 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1875 be using this script RSN.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1879 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1882 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1883 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1884 more than 1 init script.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1888 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1891 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1895 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Changed perl version detection.
1898 * Changed call to find.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1902 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1905 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1907 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1912 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Really include dh_installpam.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1918 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1921 * Wrote man page for same.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1925 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1928 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1929 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1934 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1941 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1944 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1945 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1946 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1947 x bit was being set!
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1951 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1954 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1955 well. (Closes: 38900)
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1959 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1962 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1963 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1967 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1973 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1980 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1986 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1989 help from Julian Gilbey.
1990 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1991 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1992 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1993 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1994 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1995 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1996 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2001 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2007 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2009 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2014 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2020 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2026 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2029 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2033 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2036 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2040 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2043 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2047 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2053 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2056 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2060 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2066 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2072 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2075 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2076 may be deleted. (#35845)
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2080 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Various man page enhancements.
2083 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2088 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2090 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2091 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2092 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2096 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2099 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2100 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2101 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2103 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2104 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2109 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2115 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Another very minor typo fix.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2121 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * Very minor typo fix.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2127 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2130 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2131 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2135 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2141 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2144 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2145 variables properly (#34850).
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2149 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2155 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2158 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2159 (automatically generated by build process).
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2163 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2165 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2169 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2172 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2173 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2175 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2179 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2182 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2186 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * README: minor typo fix.
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2192 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2195 leave it at that. :-)
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2199 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2205 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2211 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2214 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2215 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2216 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2220 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2223 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2227 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2230 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2234 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2237 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2238 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2239 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2240 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2244 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2246 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2247 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2248 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2249 Craig Small for spotting this.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2253 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2256 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2257 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2261 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2263 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2267 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2270 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2274 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2276 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2277 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2278 working on the last version of debhelper.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2282 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2285 being made. (#23255)
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2289 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2295 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2298 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2302 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2305 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2306 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2307 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2308 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2312 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2315 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2316 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2317 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2318 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2320 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2321 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2323 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2328 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2334 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2336 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2340 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2343 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2344 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2345 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2346 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2347 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2348 suidregister actually supports it.
2349 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2350 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2354 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2361 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2364 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2365 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2366 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2367 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2368 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2369 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2370 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2374 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2376 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2377 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2381 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2384 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2385 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2386 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2387 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2391 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2394 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2396 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2397 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2398 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2399 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2400 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2401 effect, either. (#30118)
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2405 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2411 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2414 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2415 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2419 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2425 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2428 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2429 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2430 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2431 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2435 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2438 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2439 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2443 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2449 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2452 packages, painlessly.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2456 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2462 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2468 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2470 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2474 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * The perl conversion is complete.
2478 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2480 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2481 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2482 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2487 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2490 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2491 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2492 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2496 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2499 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2501 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2503 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2504 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2508 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2511 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2512 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2516 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2522 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2525 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2526 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2527 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2528 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2529 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2533 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2536 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2537 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2538 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2539 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2543 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2546 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2550 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2553 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2554 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2555 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2556 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2557 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2558 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2559 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2560 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2564 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2570 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2573 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2574 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2575 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2580 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2583 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2587 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2590 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2594 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2597 sections of shared libraries.
2598 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2599 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2600 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2601 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2602 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2603 things you don't want them to.
2604 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2605 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2609 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2612 shared libraries. (#26414)
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2616 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2618 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2619 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2620 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2621 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2625 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2629 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2631 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2632 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2633 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2634 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2635 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2639 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2642 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2646 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2649 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2650 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2655 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2658 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2662 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2664 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2665 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2666 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2667 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2668 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2669 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2671 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2672 remove debian/files properly.
2673 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2674 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2675 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2676 * Removed bogus menu file.
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2680 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2683 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2687 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2690 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2691 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2692 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2693 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2694 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2695 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2699 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2702 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2703 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2704 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2705 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2709 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2716 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2719 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2720 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2722 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2723 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2724 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2725 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2726 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2727 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2731 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2734 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2735 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2736 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2737 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2738 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2739 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2740 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2741 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2742 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2743 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2744 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2745 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2746 passed any switches.
2747 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2751 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2754 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2755 at all for a long while.
2756 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2757 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2758 large chunks in the process.
2759 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2760 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2761 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2766 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2769 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2771 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2776 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2779 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2780 that don't always have the same files in them.
2781 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2782 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2783 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2787 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2791 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2792 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2793 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2794 updating 27 man pages.
2795 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2796 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2797 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2798 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2799 programs act on. (#25247)
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2803 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2807 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2808 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2809 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2810 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2811 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2812 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2817 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2824 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2831 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2834 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2838 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2844 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2847 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2848 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2849 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2850 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2851 package by accident.
2852 * Is version 1.0 next?
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2856 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2859 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2860 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2864 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2867 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2868 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2869 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2870 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2871 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2873 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2878 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2881 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2882 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2886 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2889 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2893 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2896 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2897 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2902 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2908 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2911 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2912 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2917 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2923 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2926 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2927 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2928 past week. Thanks, guys!
2930 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2931 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2932 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2933 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2934 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2935 would do in the same situation.
2936 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2937 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2939 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2941 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2942 permissions changed.
2943 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2944 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2945 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2946 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2947 files are treated identically.
2948 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2949 * Minor man page fixes.
2950 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2951 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2952 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2956 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2959 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2960 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2961 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2962 use -X multiple times, too.
2963 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2964 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2968 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2971 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2972 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2976 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2978 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2979 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2983 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2986 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2987 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2988 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2989 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2990 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2991 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2992 shape if you're starting a new package.
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2996 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2999 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3003 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3006 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3007 because of missing symlinks.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3011 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3017 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3020 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3021 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3022 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3023 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3024 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3026 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3027 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3031 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3033 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3034 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3035 to be changed after the fact :-)
3036 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3040 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3042 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3043 no version string after the -V.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3047 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3049 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3050 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3055 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3058 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3062 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3065 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3066 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3067 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3068 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3069 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3070 I always welcome corrections!
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3074 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3080 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3083 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3084 * Documented this new switch.
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3088 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3091 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3092 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3093 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3094 no packages use the old behavior.
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3098 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3101 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3102 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3106 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3109 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3113 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3119 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3121 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3122 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3126 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3129 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3130 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3131 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3135 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3137 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3141 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3144 into the source package by accident.
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3148 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3151 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3152 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3153 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3154 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3155 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3156 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3161 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3165 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3166 inspired to implement some of it.
3167 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3171 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3174 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3178 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3181 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3182 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3186 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3189 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3190 have done.) (#17598)
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3194 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3200 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3206 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3209 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3213 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3216 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3217 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3221 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3224 argument processor in perl.
3225 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3226 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3227 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3228 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3232 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3235 type directories. (#16933)
3236 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3237 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3238 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3239 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3240 are supported. (#16935)
3241 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3246 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3249 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3253 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3257 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3258 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3259 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3260 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3261 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3262 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3266 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3269 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3270 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3272 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3273 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3274 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3275 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3276 a given package, or -i or -a.
3277 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3278 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3279 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3280 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3281 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3282 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3283 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3284 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3285 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3287 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3288 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3289 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3293 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3296 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3297 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3302 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3305 does not have a section.
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3309 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3312 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3313 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3314 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3318 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * Fixed typo #16215.
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3324 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3327 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3328 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3329 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3330 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3331 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3336 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3339 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3340 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3341 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3346 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3348 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3352 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3354 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3358 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3361 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3362 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3363 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3364 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3365 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3366 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3370 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3376 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3379 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3383 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3386 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3387 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3388 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3392 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3395 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3399 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3405 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3408 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3412 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3415 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3419 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3425 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3427 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3428 postinst, postrm, etc.
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3432 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3438 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3441 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3442 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3443 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3444 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3445 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3449 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3452 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3453 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3457 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3460 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3464 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3467 installing package files into.
3468 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3473 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3477 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3481 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3487 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3490 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3494 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3497 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3498 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3499 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3500 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3504 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3506 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3507 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3508 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3509 multiple binary packages.
3510 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3511 should rebuild them with this version.
3512 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3516 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3519 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3523 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3526 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3530 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3533 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3534 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3535 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3536 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3537 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3538 debian/README.debian.
3539 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3540 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3541 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3542 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3543 in a few situations.)
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3547 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3553 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3555 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3559 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3561 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3562 * Fixed several man pages.
3564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3566 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3568 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3569 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3570 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3574 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3577 is ready for general use.
3578 * Added man pages for all commands.
3579 * Multiple binary package support.
3580 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3581 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3582 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3584 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3585 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3586 auto-installed as parameters.
3587 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3589 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3592 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3593 the package build directory it is to act on.
3594 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3595 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3596 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3600 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3602 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3603 ready to replace debstd.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400