1 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
4 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
5 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
6 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
7 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
8 Closes: #106514, #85520
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
12 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
14 * Typo, Closes: #104405
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
18 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
20 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
24 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
26 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
30 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
36 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
42 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
45 change it in debhelper v4..
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
49 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
55 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
58 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
62 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
65 is not essential. Closes: #100430
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
69 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
75 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
78 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
79 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
80 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
81 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
82 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
83 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
84 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
85 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
86 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
87 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
88 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
89 prefixed with ".debhelper")
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
93 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
95 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
96 look just like shared libs, but are not.
98 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
100 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
102 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
107 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
110 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
111 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
112 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
113 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
114 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
115 program those options go to. So, for example,
116 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
117 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
118 something complex. Closes: #89311
119 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
123 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
126 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
127 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
128 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
132 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
135 through loop. Closes: #98598
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
139 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
141 * Missing semi-colon.
142 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
143 this (dh_* should be called, really).
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
147 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
149 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
150 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
151 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
152 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
156 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
159 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
160 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
164 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
167 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
171 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
174 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
175 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
179 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
182 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
183 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
184 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
188 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
191 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
192 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
193 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
197 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
200 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
204 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
206 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
210 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Typo, Closes: #92407
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
216 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
218 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
222 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
228 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
231 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
235 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
237 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
238 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
239 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
240 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
241 followed. Closes: #85483
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
245 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
247 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
248 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
249 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
253 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
256 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
257 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
258 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
259 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
260 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
261 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
262 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
263 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
264 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
265 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
266 Closes: #88464, #77743
267 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
268 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
269 us to deal with that gracefully.
270 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
272 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
273 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
274 a while, Closes: #51225
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
278 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
284 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
286 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
287 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
291 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
295 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
300 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
303 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
304 don't make packlist files.
305 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
306 debhelper coding standards.
307 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
308 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
312 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
314 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
315 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
319 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
322 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
323 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
324 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
325 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
326 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
327 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
328 but is mildly deprecated.
329 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
330 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
331 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
332 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
333 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
334 switching to statoverrides..
335 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
336 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
337 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
338 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
339 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
340 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
342 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
343 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
344 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
345 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
346 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
347 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
348 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
349 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
350 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
352 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
353 variable names, pod man pages).
354 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
355 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
356 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
357 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
358 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
359 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
360 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
364 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
366 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
370 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
377 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
380 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
384 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
386 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
387 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
388 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
392 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
394 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
395 they were previously ignored.
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
399 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
401 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
402 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
406 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
408 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
409 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
410 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
414 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
416 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
420 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
422 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
423 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
427 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
429 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
430 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
431 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
432 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
433 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
434 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
435 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
436 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
437 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
438 it is an obsolete program.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
442 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
444 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
448 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
452 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
454 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
458 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
460 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
462 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
464 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
468 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
474 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
476 * typo: Closes, #78567
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
480 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
482 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
486 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
492 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
494 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
495 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
496 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
497 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
498 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
499 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
503 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
505 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
506 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
511 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
514 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
515 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
516 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
517 backwards-compatability.
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
521 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
523 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
524 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
525 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
526 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
527 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
528 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
529 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
531 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
532 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
533 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
535 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
537 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
538 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
539 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
540 should now be raised to severity important..
541 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
542 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
546 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
549 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
554 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
556 * Typo, Closes: #77441
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
560 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Completed the fix from the last version.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
566 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
572 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
574 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
579 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
581 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
582 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
583 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
584 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
585 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
589 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
595 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
598 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
599 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
600 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
601 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
602 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
603 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
608 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
611 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
615 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
621 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
623 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
624 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
629 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
631 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
632 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
633 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
634 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
635 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
639 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
643 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
646 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
649 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
650 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
653 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
655 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
656 the TODO entry about it.
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
660 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
662 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
667 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
669 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
670 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
671 prevent that. Closes: #73052
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
675 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Typo, Closes: #72932
678 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
679 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
680 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
681 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
685 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
691 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
693 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
698 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
701 (this appears to be logal).
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
705 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
707 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
708 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
709 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
710 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
711 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
715 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
721 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
723 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
724 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
725 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
726 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
727 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
731 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
733 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
737 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
740 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
744 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
751 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
754 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
755 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
756 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
761 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
768 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
774 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
776 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
777 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
778 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
779 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
780 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
781 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
782 notice until v2 is complete.
783 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
784 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
785 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
786 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
787 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
788 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
790 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
791 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
792 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
793 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
797 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
799 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
803 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
805 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
810 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
812 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
813 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
817 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
824 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
827 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
828 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
829 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
830 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
835 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
837 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
838 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
839 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
840 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
845 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
847 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
848 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
849 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
853 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
855 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
856 just skip files that end in -\d+.
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
860 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
862 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
863 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
867 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
869 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
874 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
876 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
877 depend on the build and install targets.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
881 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
884 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
888 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
890 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
895 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
897 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
901 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
907 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
910 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
911 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
912 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
913 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
914 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
915 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
917 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
918 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
919 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
920 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
921 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
922 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
923 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
927 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
933 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
939 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
942 right place. Closes: #55065
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
946 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
948 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
953 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Make all examples rules files executable.
956 * Copyright date updates.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
960 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
963 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
968 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
970 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
974 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
981 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
987 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
993 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
999 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1002 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1003 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1004 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1005 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1006 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1007 bits until all files have been registered.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1011 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_installmanpages:
1014 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1015 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1016 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1017 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1018 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1019 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1020 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1021 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1022 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1023 otherwise change the result at all.
1025 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1026 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1027 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1028 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1029 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1034 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1040 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1043 act on files that don't exist.
1044 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1045 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1046 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1048 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1049 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1050 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1051 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1055 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1061 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1067 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1070 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1074 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1077 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1079 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1080 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1081 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1085 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1088 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1089 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1090 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1091 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1092 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1093 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1094 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1096 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1098 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1102 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1109 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1115 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1121 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1124 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1128 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1134 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1140 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1143 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1144 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1145 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1146 I made some changes, though:
1147 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1148 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1149 that is a clear violation of policy.
1150 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1151 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1152 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1153 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1154 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1155 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1156 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1157 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1158 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1160 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1164 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1170 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1173 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1177 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1180 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1181 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1186 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1192 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1194 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1199 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1201 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1202 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1203 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1204 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1205 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1206 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1207 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1208 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1212 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1218 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1222 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1223 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1227 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1233 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1236 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1240 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1243 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1244 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1248 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1250 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1255 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1257 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1259 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1263 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1266 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1267 for the dependancies to be generated.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1271 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1274 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1278 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1281 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1282 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1283 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1288 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1291 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1292 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1296 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1302 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1308 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1311 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1315 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1321 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1323 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1324 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1325 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1326 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1327 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1328 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1329 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1330 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1331 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1332 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1333 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1334 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1335 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1339 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1342 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1343 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1345 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1346 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1347 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1348 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1349 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1350 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1352 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1353 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1357 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1360 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1364 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1366 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1371 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1374 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1379 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1382 for building debhelper.
1383 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1387 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1394 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1397 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1401 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1404 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1405 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1406 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1407 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1408 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1409 it's always available.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1413 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1416 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1417 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1418 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1422 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1425 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1426 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1430 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1436 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1439 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1443 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1449 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1452 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1453 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1454 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1458 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1461 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1466 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1469 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1470 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1472 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1473 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1477 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1483 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1492 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1496 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1499 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1500 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1502 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1506 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1509 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1510 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1511 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1515 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1518 things if CDPATH is set.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1522 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1528 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1531 seems to make sense for the transition.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1535 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1538 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1543 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1546 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1547 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1551 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1554 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1558 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1561 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1562 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1563 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1564 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1568 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1574 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1577 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1578 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1579 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1580 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1581 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1582 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1583 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1584 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1585 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1586 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1591 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1594 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1595 * README: mention doc/v2
1596 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1597 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1601 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1603 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1604 be using this script RSN.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1608 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1611 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1612 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1613 more than 1 init script.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1617 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1620 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1624 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * Changed perl version detection.
1627 * Changed call to find.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1631 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1634 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1636 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1641 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Really include dh_installpam.
1645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1647 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1649 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1650 * Wrote man page for same.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1654 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1657 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1658 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1663 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1670 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1673 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1674 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1675 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1676 x bit was being set!
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1680 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1683 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1684 well. (Closes: 38900)
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1688 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1691 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1692 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1696 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1702 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1709 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1711 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1715 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1718 help from Julian Gilbey.
1719 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1720 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1721 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1722 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1723 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1724 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1725 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1730 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1736 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1743 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1749 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1755 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1758 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1762 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1765 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1769 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1772 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1776 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1782 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1785 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1789 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1795 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1801 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1804 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1805 may be deleted. (#35845)
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1809 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Various man page enhancements.
1812 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1817 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1820 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1821 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1825 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1828 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1829 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1830 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1832 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1833 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1838 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1840 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1844 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * Another very minor typo fix.
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1850 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Very minor typo fix.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1856 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1859 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1860 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1864 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1870 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1873 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1874 variables properly (#34850).
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1878 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1884 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1887 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1888 (automatically generated by build process).
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1892 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1894 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1898 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1901 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1902 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1904 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1908 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1911 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1915 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * README: minor typo fix.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1921 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1924 leave it at that. :-)
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1928 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1934 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1940 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1943 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1944 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1945 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1949 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1952 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1956 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1959 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1963 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1966 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1967 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1968 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1969 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1973 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1976 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1977 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1978 Craig Small for spotting this.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1982 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1985 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1986 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1990 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1996 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1999 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2003 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2005 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2006 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2007 working on the last version of debhelper.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2011 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2014 being made. (#23255)
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2018 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2024 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2027 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2031 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2033 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2034 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2035 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2036 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2037 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2041 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2044 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2045 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2046 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2047 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2049 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2050 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2052 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2057 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2063 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2069 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2072 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2073 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2074 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2075 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2076 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2077 suidregister actually supports it.
2078 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2079 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2083 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2090 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2093 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2094 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2095 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2096 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2097 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2098 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2099 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2103 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2105 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2106 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2110 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2113 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2114 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2115 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2116 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2120 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2122 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2123 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2125 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2126 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2127 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2128 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2129 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2130 effect, either. (#30118)
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2134 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2140 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2143 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2144 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2148 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2154 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2157 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2158 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2159 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2160 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2164 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2167 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2168 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2172 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2178 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2181 packages, painlessly.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2185 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2191 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2197 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2203 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * The perl conversion is complete.
2207 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2209 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2210 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2211 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2216 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2219 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2220 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2221 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2225 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2228 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2230 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2232 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2233 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2237 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2240 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2241 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2245 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2251 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2254 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2255 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2256 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2257 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2258 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2262 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2265 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2266 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2267 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2268 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2272 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2275 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2279 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2282 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2283 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2284 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2285 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2286 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2287 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2288 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2289 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2293 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2299 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2302 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2303 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2304 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2309 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2312 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2316 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2319 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2323 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2326 sections of shared libraries.
2327 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2328 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2329 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2330 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2331 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2332 things you don't want them to.
2333 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2334 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2338 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2341 shared libraries. (#26414)
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2345 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2347 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2348 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2349 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2350 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2354 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2358 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2360 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2361 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2362 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2363 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2364 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2368 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2371 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2375 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2378 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2379 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2384 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2387 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2391 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2394 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2395 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2396 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2397 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2398 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2400 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2401 remove debian/files properly.
2402 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2403 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2404 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2405 * Removed bogus menu file.
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2409 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2412 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2416 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2419 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2420 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2421 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2422 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2423 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2424 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2428 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2431 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2432 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2433 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2434 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2438 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2445 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2448 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2449 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2451 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2452 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2453 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2454 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2455 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2456 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2460 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2463 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2464 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2465 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2466 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2467 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2468 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2469 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2470 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2471 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2472 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2473 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2474 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2475 passed any switches.
2476 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2480 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2483 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2484 at all for a long while.
2485 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2486 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2487 large chunks in the process.
2488 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2489 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2490 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2495 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2498 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2500 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2505 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2508 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2509 that don't always have the same files in them.
2510 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2511 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2512 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2516 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2520 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2521 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2522 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2523 updating 27 man pages.
2524 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2525 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2526 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2527 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2528 programs act on. (#25247)
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2532 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2536 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2537 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2538 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2539 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2540 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2541 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2546 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2553 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2560 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2563 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2567 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2573 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2576 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2577 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2578 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2579 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2580 package by accident.
2581 * Is version 1.0 next?
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2585 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2588 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2589 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2593 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2596 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2597 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2598 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2599 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2600 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2602 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2607 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2610 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2611 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2615 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2618 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2622 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2625 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2626 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2631 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2637 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2640 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2641 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2646 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2652 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2655 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2656 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2657 past week. Thanks, guys!
2659 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2660 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2661 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2662 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2663 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2664 would do in the same situation.
2665 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2666 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2668 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2670 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2671 permissions changed.
2672 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2673 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2674 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2675 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2676 files are treated identically.
2677 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2678 * Minor man page fixes.
2679 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2680 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2681 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2685 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2688 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2689 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2690 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2691 use -X multiple times, too.
2692 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2693 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2697 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2700 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2701 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2705 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2708 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2712 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2715 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2716 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2717 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2718 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2719 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2720 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2721 shape if you're starting a new package.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2725 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2728 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2732 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2735 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2736 because of missing symlinks.
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2740 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2746 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2749 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2750 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2751 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2752 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2753 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2755 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2756 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2760 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2762 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2763 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2764 to be changed after the fact :-)
2765 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2769 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2771 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2772 no version string after the -V.
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2776 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2778 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2779 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2784 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2787 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2791 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2794 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2795 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2796 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2797 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2798 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2799 I always welcome corrections!
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2803 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2809 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2812 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2813 * Documented this new switch.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2817 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2820 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2821 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2822 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2823 no packages use the old behavior.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2827 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2830 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2831 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2835 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2838 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2842 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2848 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2851 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2855 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2858 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2859 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2860 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2864 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2866 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2870 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2873 into the source package by accident.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2877 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2880 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2881 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2882 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2883 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2884 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2885 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2890 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2894 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2895 inspired to implement some of it.
2896 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2900 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2903 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2907 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2910 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2911 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2915 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2918 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2919 have done.) (#17598)
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2923 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2929 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2935 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2938 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2942 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2945 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2946 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2950 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2953 argument processor in perl.
2954 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2955 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2956 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2957 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2961 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2964 type directories. (#16933)
2965 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2966 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2967 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2968 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2969 are supported. (#16935)
2970 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2975 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2978 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2982 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2984 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2986 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2987 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2988 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2989 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2990 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2991 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2995 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2998 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2999 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3001 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3002 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3003 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3004 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3005 a given package, or -i or -a.
3006 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3007 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3008 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3009 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3010 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3011 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3012 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3013 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3014 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3016 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3017 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3018 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3022 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3025 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3026 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3031 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3034 does not have a section.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3038 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3041 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3042 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3043 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3047 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Fixed typo #16215.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3053 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3056 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3057 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3058 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3059 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3060 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3065 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3068 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3069 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3070 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3075 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3081 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3087 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3090 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3091 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3092 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3093 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3094 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3095 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3099 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3105 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3108 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3112 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3115 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3116 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3117 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3121 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3124 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3128 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3130 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3134 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3137 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3141 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3144 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3148 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3154 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3157 postinst, postrm, etc.
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3161 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3167 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3170 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3171 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3172 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3173 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3174 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3178 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3181 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3182 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3186 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3189 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3193 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3196 installing package files into.
3197 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3202 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3206 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3210 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3216 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3219 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3223 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3226 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3227 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3228 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3229 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3233 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3235 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3236 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3237 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3238 multiple binary packages.
3239 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3240 should rebuild them with this version.
3241 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3245 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3248 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3252 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3255 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3259 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3262 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3263 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3264 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3265 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3266 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3267 debian/README.debian.
3268 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3269 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3270 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3271 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3272 in a few situations.)
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3276 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3282 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3288 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3291 * Fixed several man pages.
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3295 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3298 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3299 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3303 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3306 is ready for general use.
3307 * Added man pages for all commands.
3308 * Multiple binary package support.
3309 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3310 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3311 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3313 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3314 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3315 auto-installed as parameters.
3316 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3318 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3321 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3322 the package build directory it is to act on.
3323 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3324 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3325 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3329 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3331 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3332 ready to replace debstd.
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400