1 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
4 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
5 the shell. Closes: #178524
6 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
8 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
10 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
12 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
13 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
17 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
19 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
20 undocumented.7 links anymore.
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
24 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
26 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
27 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
28 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
29 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
30 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
35 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
38 files from installation.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
42 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
45 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
46 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
50 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
53 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
57 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
60 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
64 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
70 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
76 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
80 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
81 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
83 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
87 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
90 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
91 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
92 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
93 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
97 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
99 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
100 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
104 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
107 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
108 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
112 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
114 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
116 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
121 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
127 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
129 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
131 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
132 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
133 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
138 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
141 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
142 practice. Closes: #163303
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
146 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
148 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
152 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
159 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
161 * The "reverse hangover" release.
162 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
164 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
165 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
166 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
167 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
168 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
172 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
174 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
175 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
180 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
186 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
193 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
196 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
201 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
203 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
207 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
213 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
219 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
226 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
229 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
230 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
231 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
232 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
237 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Typo, Closes: #155323
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
243 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
245 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
250 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
252 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
253 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
254 * Removed dh_installxaw.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
258 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
261 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
262 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
263 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
264 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
265 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
269 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
272 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
274 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
279 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
281 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
282 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
286 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
288 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
289 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
290 right thing. Closes: #150644
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
294 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
297 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
301 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
303 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
308 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
311 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
312 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
317 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
323 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
326 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
330 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
333 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
334 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
339 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
342 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
346 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
352 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
355 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
356 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
360 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
362 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
366 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Removing perl warning message.
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
372 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
375 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
376 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
377 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
378 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
379 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
380 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
381 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
382 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
386 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
392 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
399 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
401 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
402 debconf-mergetemplate.
403 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
404 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
408 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
411 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
412 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
413 dh_install, which ...
414 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
415 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
416 mess, as it uses debian/install.
417 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
418 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
419 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
420 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
421 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
422 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
423 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
424 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
425 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
426 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
427 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
429 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
430 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
431 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
432 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
433 course there's -X ..)
434 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
435 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
436 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
438 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
439 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
440 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
441 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
442 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
447 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
453 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Typo, Closes: #139176
456 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
460 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
466 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
472 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
478 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
484 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
487 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
488 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
489 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
490 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
492 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
493 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
497 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
503 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Typo, Closes: #132454
506 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
510 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
512 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
513 upset. Closes: #131322
515 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
517 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
519 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
520 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
521 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
522 line, as well as in debian/rules.
523 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
524 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
525 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
526 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
527 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
528 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
529 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
530 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
531 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
532 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
533 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
534 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
536 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
540 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
543 - Better indenting of generated code.
544 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
548 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
552 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
553 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
554 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
555 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
556 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
557 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
558 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
562 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
564 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
565 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
569 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
572 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
573 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
574 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
575 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
576 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
577 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
578 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
579 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
580 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
581 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
582 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
583 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
584 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
585 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
586 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
591 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
593 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
597 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
600 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
601 * fixed dh_testdir man page
603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
605 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
607 * Typo, Closes: #122679
608 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
609 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
613 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
619 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
621 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
622 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
623 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
624 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
625 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
626 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
631 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
633 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
637 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
640 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
644 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
647 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
652 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Typo, Closes: #114135
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
658 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
661 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
665 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
671 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
675 Also some indentation fixes.
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
679 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
681 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
682 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
683 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
684 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
685 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
686 Closes: #106514, #85520
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
690 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Typo, Closes: #104405
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
696 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
702 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
704 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
708 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
714 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
720 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
723 change it in debhelper v4..
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
727 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
733 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
736 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
740 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
742 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
743 is not essential. Closes: #100430
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
747 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
749 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
753 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
755 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
756 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
757 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
758 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
759 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
760 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
761 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
762 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
763 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
764 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
765 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
766 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
767 prefixed with ".debhelper")
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
771 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
774 look just like shared libs, but are not.
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
778 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
785 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
787 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
788 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
789 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
790 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
791 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
792 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
793 program those options go to. So, for example,
794 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
795 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
796 something complex. Closes: #89311
797 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
801 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
804 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
805 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
806 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
810 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
813 through loop. Closes: #98598
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
817 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Missing semi-colon.
820 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
821 this (dh_* should be called, really).
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
825 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
827 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
828 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
829 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
830 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
834 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
836 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
837 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
838 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
842 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
844 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
845 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
849 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
851 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
852 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
853 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
857 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
860 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
861 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
862 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
866 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
868 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
869 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
870 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
871 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
875 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
878 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
882 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
888 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Typo, Closes: #92407
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
894 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
896 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
900 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
906 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
909 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
913 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
916 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
917 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
918 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
919 followed. Closes: #85483
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
923 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
925 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
926 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
927 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
931 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
934 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
935 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
936 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
937 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
938 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
939 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
940 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
941 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
942 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
943 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
944 Closes: #88464, #77743
945 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
946 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
947 us to deal with that gracefully.
948 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
950 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
951 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
952 a while, Closes: #51225
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
956 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
962 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
965 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
969 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
973 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
978 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
980 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
981 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
982 don't make packlist files.
983 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
984 debhelper coding standards.
985 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
986 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
990 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
993 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
997 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1000 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1001 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1002 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1003 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1004 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1005 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1006 but is mildly deprecated.
1007 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1008 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1009 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1010 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1011 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1012 switching to statoverrides..
1013 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1014 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1015 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1016 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1017 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1018 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1020 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1021 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1022 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1023 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1024 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1025 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1026 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1027 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1028 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1030 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1031 variable names, pod man pages).
1032 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1033 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1034 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1035 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1036 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1037 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1038 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1042 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1048 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1055 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1058 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1062 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1064 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1065 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1066 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1070 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1072 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1073 they were previously ignored.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1077 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1079 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1080 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1084 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1086 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1087 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1088 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1092 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1094 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1098 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1100 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1101 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1105 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1107 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1108 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1109 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1110 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1111 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1112 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1113 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1114 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1115 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1116 it is an obsolete program.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1120 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1122 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1126 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1130 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1132 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1136 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1138 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1140 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1142 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1146 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1152 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1154 * typo: Closes, #78567
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1158 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1164 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1170 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1173 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1174 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1175 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1176 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1177 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1181 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1184 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1189 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1192 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1193 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1194 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1195 backwards-compatability.
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1199 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1202 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1203 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1204 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1205 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1206 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1207 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1209 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1210 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1211 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1213 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1215 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1216 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1217 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1218 should now be raised to severity important..
1219 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1220 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1224 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1227 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1232 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1238 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1244 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1250 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1257 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1260 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1261 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1262 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1263 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1267 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1273 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1276 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1277 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1278 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1279 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1280 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1281 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1286 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1289 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1293 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1299 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1302 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1307 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1310 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1311 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1312 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1313 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1317 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1321 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1324 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1327 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1328 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1331 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1333 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1334 the TODO entry about it.
1336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1338 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1340 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1345 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1348 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1349 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1353 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1356 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1357 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1358 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1359 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1363 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1369 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1376 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1379 (this appears to be logal).
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1383 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1386 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1387 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1388 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1389 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1393 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1399 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1402 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1403 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1404 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1405 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1409 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1415 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1418 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1422 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1429 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1432 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1433 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1434 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1439 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1446 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1452 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1455 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1456 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1457 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1458 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1459 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1460 notice until v2 is complete.
1461 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1462 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1463 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1464 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1465 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1466 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1468 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1469 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1470 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1471 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1475 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1481 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1488 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1491 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1495 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1502 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1505 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1506 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1507 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1508 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1513 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1516 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1517 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1518 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1523 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1526 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1527 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1531 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1534 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1538 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1541 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1545 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1547 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1552 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1555 depend on the build and install targets.
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1559 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1562 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1566 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1573 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1579 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1585 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1588 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1589 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1590 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1591 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1592 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1593 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1595 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1596 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1597 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1598 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1599 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1600 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1601 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1605 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1611 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1617 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1620 right place. Closes: #55065
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1624 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1631 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1634 * Copyright date updates.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1638 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1641 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1646 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1652 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1659 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1665 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1671 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1677 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1680 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1681 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1682 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1683 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1684 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1685 bits until all files have been registered.
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1689 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_installmanpages:
1692 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1693 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1694 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1695 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1696 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1697 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1698 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1699 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1700 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1701 otherwise change the result at all.
1703 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1704 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1705 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1706 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1707 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1712 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1718 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1721 act on files that don't exist.
1722 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1723 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1724 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1726 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1727 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1728 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1729 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1733 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1739 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1745 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1748 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1752 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1755 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1757 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1758 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1759 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1763 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1766 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1767 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1768 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1769 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1770 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1771 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1772 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1774 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1776 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1780 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1787 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1793 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1799 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1802 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1806 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1812 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1818 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1821 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1822 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1823 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1824 I made some changes, though:
1825 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1826 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1827 that is a clear violation of policy.
1828 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1829 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1830 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1831 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1832 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1833 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1834 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1835 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1836 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1838 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1842 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1848 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1851 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1855 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1858 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1859 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1864 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1870 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1877 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1880 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1881 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1882 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1883 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1884 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1885 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1886 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1890 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1896 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1900 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1901 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1905 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1911 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1914 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1918 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1921 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1922 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1926 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1928 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1933 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1935 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1937 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1941 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1943 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1944 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1945 for the dependancies to be generated.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1949 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1952 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1956 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1959 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1960 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1961 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1966 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1968 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1969 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1970 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1974 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1976 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1980 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1986 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1989 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1993 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1999 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2002 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2003 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2004 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2005 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2006 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2007 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2008 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2009 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2010 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2011 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2012 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2013 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2017 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2020 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2021 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2023 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2024 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2025 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2026 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2027 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2028 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2030 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2031 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2035 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2038 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2042 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2049 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2052 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2057 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2060 for building debhelper.
2061 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2065 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2072 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2075 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2079 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2082 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2083 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2084 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2085 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2086 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2087 it's always available.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2091 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2094 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2095 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2096 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2100 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2103 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2104 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2108 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2114 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2117 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2121 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2127 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2130 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2131 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2132 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2136 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2139 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2144 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2147 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2148 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2150 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2151 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2155 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2161 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2167 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2170 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2174 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2177 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2178 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2180 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2184 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2187 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2188 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2189 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2193 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2196 things if CDPATH is set.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2200 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2206 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2209 seems to make sense for the transition.
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2213 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2216 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2221 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2223 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2224 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2225 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2229 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2232 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2236 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2239 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2240 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2241 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2242 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2246 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2252 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2255 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2256 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2257 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2258 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2259 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2260 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2261 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2262 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2263 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2264 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2269 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2272 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2273 * README: mention doc/v2
2274 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2275 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2279 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2281 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2282 be using this script RSN.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2286 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2289 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2290 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2291 more than 1 init script.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2295 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2298 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2302 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Changed perl version detection.
2305 * Changed call to find.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2309 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2312 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2314 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2319 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2321 * Really include dh_installpam.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2325 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2328 * Wrote man page for same.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2332 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2335 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2336 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2341 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2348 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2351 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2352 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2353 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2354 x bit was being set!
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2358 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2361 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2362 well. (Closes: 38900)
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2366 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2369 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2370 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2374 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2380 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2387 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2393 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2396 help from Julian Gilbey.
2397 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2398 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2399 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2400 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2401 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2402 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2403 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2408 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2414 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2416 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2421 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2427 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2433 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2436 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2440 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2443 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2447 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2450 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2454 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2460 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2463 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2467 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2473 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2479 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2482 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2483 may be deleted. (#35845)
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2487 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * Various man page enhancements.
2490 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2495 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2498 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2499 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2503 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2506 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2507 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2508 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2510 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2511 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2516 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2522 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * Another very minor typo fix.
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2528 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2530 * Very minor typo fix.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2534 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2537 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2538 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2542 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2548 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2550 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2551 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2552 variables properly (#34850).
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2556 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2558 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2562 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2565 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2566 (automatically generated by build process).
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2570 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2572 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2576 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2579 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2580 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2582 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2586 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2589 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2593 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * README: minor typo fix.
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2599 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2602 leave it at that. :-)
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2606 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2612 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2618 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2621 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2622 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2623 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2627 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2630 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2634 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2637 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2641 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2644 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2645 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2646 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2647 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2651 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2654 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2655 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2656 Craig Small for spotting this.
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2660 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2663 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2664 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2668 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2670 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2674 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2677 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2681 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2683 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2684 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2685 working on the last version of debhelper.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2689 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2692 being made. (#23255)
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2696 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2702 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2705 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2709 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2712 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2713 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2714 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2715 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2719 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2722 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2723 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2724 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2725 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2727 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2728 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2730 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2735 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2741 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2747 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2750 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2751 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2752 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2753 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2754 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2755 suidregister actually supports it.
2756 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2757 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2761 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2768 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2771 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2772 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2773 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2774 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2775 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2776 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2777 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2781 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2783 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2784 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2788 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2791 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2792 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2793 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2794 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2798 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2801 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2803 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2804 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2805 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2806 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2807 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2808 effect, either. (#30118)
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2812 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2818 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2821 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2822 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2826 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2832 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2835 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2836 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2837 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2838 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2842 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2845 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2846 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2850 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2856 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2859 packages, painlessly.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2863 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2869 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2875 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2881 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * The perl conversion is complete.
2885 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2887 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2888 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2889 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2894 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2897 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2898 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2899 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2903 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2905 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2906 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2908 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2910 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2911 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2915 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2918 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2919 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2923 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2929 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2932 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2933 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2934 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2935 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2936 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2940 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2943 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2944 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2945 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2946 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2950 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2953 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2957 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2960 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2961 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2962 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2963 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2964 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2965 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2966 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2967 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2971 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2977 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2980 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2981 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2982 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2987 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2990 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2994 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2997 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3001 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3003 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3004 sections of shared libraries.
3005 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3006 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3007 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3008 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3009 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3010 things you don't want them to.
3011 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3012 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3016 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3019 shared libraries. (#26414)
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3023 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3025 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3026 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3027 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3028 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3032 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3036 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3038 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3039 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3040 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3041 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3042 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3046 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3049 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3053 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3056 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3057 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3062 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3065 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3069 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3072 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3073 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3074 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3075 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3076 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3078 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3079 remove debian/files properly.
3080 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3081 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3082 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3083 * Removed bogus menu file.
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3087 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3090 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3094 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3097 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3098 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3099 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3100 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3101 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3102 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3106 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3109 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3110 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3111 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3112 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3116 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3123 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3125 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3126 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3127 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3129 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3130 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3131 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3132 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3133 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3134 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3138 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3141 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3142 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3143 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3144 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3145 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3146 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3147 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3148 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3149 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3150 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3151 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3152 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3153 passed any switches.
3154 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3158 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3161 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3162 at all for a long while.
3163 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3164 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3165 large chunks in the process.
3166 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3167 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3168 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3173 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3176 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3178 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3183 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3186 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3187 that don't always have the same files in them.
3188 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3189 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3190 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3194 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3198 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3199 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3200 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3201 updating 27 man pages.
3202 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3203 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3204 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3205 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3206 programs act on. (#25247)
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3210 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3214 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3215 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3216 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3217 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3218 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3219 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3224 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3231 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3233 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3238 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3241 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3245 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3251 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3254 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3255 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3256 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3257 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3258 package by accident.
3259 * Is version 1.0 next?
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3263 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3266 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3267 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3271 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3274 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3275 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3276 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3277 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3278 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3280 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3285 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3288 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3289 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3293 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3296 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3300 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3303 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3304 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3309 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3315 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3318 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3319 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3324 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3330 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3333 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3334 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3335 past week. Thanks, guys!
3337 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3338 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3339 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3340 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3341 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3342 would do in the same situation.
3343 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3344 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3346 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3348 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3349 permissions changed.
3350 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3351 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3352 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3353 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3354 files are treated identically.
3355 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3356 * Minor man page fixes.
3357 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3358 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3359 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3363 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3365 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3366 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3367 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3368 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3369 use -X multiple times, too.
3370 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3371 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3375 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3378 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3379 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3383 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3386 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3390 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3393 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3394 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3395 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3396 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3397 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3398 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3399 shape if you're starting a new package.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3403 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3406 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3410 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3413 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3414 because of missing symlinks.
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3418 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3424 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3427 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3428 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3429 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3430 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3431 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3433 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3434 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3438 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3440 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3441 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3442 to be changed after the fact :-)
3443 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3447 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3450 no version string after the -V.
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3454 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3456 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3457 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3462 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3465 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3469 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3472 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3473 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3474 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3475 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3476 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3477 I always welcome corrections!
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3481 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3487 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3490 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3491 * Documented this new switch.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3495 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3498 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3499 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3500 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3501 no packages use the old behavior.
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3505 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3508 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3509 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3513 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3515 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3516 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3520 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3526 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3529 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3533 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3536 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3537 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3538 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3542 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3548 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3551 into the source package by accident.
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3555 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3558 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3559 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3560 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3561 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3562 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3563 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3568 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3570 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3572 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3573 inspired to implement some of it.
3574 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3578 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3581 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3585 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3588 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3589 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3593 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3596 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3597 have done.) (#17598)
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3601 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3607 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3613 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3616 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3620 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3623 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3624 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3628 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3631 argument processor in perl.
3632 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3633 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3634 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3635 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3639 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3642 type directories. (#16933)
3643 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3644 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3645 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3646 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3647 are supported. (#16935)
3648 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3653 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3656 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3660 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3664 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3665 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3666 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3667 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3668 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3669 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3673 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3676 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3677 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3679 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3680 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3681 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3682 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3683 a given package, or -i or -a.
3684 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3685 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3686 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3687 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3688 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3689 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3690 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3691 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3692 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3694 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3695 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3696 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3700 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3703 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3704 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3709 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3712 does not have a section.
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3716 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3719 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3720 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3721 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3725 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3727 * Fixed typo #16215.
3729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3731 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3733 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3734 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3735 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3736 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3737 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3738 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3743 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3746 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3747 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3748 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3753 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3759 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3765 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3768 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3769 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3770 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3771 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3772 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3773 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3777 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3783 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3786 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3790 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3793 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3794 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3795 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3799 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3801 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3802 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3806 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3808 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3812 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3814 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3815 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3819 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3821 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3822 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3826 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3828 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3832 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3834 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3835 postinst, postrm, etc.
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3839 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3845 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3848 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3849 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3850 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3851 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3852 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3856 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3859 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3860 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3864 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3866 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3867 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3871 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3873 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3874 installing package files into.
3875 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3880 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3882 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3884 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3888 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3894 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3896 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3897 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3901 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3904 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3905 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3906 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3907 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3911 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3913 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3914 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3915 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3916 multiple binary packages.
3917 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3918 should rebuild them with this version.
3919 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3923 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3925 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3926 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3930 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3932 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3933 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3937 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3939 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3940 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3941 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3942 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3943 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3944 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3945 debian/README.debian.
3946 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3947 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3948 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3949 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3950 in a few situations.)
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3954 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3960 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3966 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3968 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3969 * Fixed several man pages.
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3973 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3976 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3977 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3981 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3984 is ready for general use.
3985 * Added man pages for all commands.
3986 * Multiple binary package support.
3987 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3988 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3989 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3991 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3992 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3993 auto-installed as parameters.
3994 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3996 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3999 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4000 the package build directory it is to act on.
4001 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4002 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4003 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4007 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4009 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4010 ready to replace debstd.
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400