1 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Typo, Closes: #132454
4 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
8 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
11 upset. Closes: #131322
13 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
15 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
18 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
19 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
20 line, as well as in debian/rules.
21 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
22 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
23 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
24 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
25 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
26 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
27 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
28 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
29 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
30 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
31 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
32 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
34 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
38 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
41 - Better indenting of generated code.
42 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
46 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
50 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
51 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
52 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
53 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
54 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
55 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
56 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
60 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
62 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
63 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
67 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
70 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
71 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
72 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
73 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
74 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
75 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
76 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
77 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
78 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
79 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
80 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
81 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
82 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
83 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
84 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
89 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
95 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
98 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
99 * fixed dh_testdir man page
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
103 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Typo, Closes: #122679
106 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
107 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
111 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
113 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
117 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
119 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
120 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
121 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
122 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
123 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
124 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
129 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
131 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
135 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
138 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
142 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
145 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
150 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Typo, Closes: #114135
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
156 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
159 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
163 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
165 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
169 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
171 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
173 Also some indentation fixes.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
177 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
180 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
181 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
182 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
183 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
184 Closes: #106514, #85520
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
188 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Typo, Closes: #104405
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
194 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
200 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
202 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
206 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
212 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
214 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
218 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
221 change it in debhelper v4..
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
225 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
231 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
233 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
234 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
238 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
241 is not essential. Closes: #100430
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
245 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
251 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
253 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
254 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
255 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
256 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
257 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
258 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
259 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
260 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
261 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
262 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
263 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
264 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
265 prefixed with ".debhelper")
267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
269 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
271 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
272 look just like shared libs, but are not.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
276 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
283 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
286 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
287 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
288 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
289 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
290 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
291 program those options go to. So, for example,
292 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
293 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
294 something complex. Closes: #89311
295 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
299 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
302 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
303 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
304 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
308 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
310 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
311 through loop. Closes: #98598
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
315 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Missing semi-colon.
318 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
319 this (dh_* should be called, really).
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
323 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
326 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
327 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
328 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
332 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
334 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
335 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
336 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
340 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
343 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
347 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
349 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
350 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
351 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
355 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
358 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
359 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
360 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
364 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
366 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
367 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
368 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
369 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
373 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
376 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
380 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
386 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
388 * Typo, Closes: #92407
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
392 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
398 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
404 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
407 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
411 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
414 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
415 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
416 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
417 followed. Closes: #85483
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
421 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
423 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
424 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
425 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
429 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
432 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
433 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
434 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
435 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
436 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
437 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
438 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
439 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
440 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
441 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
442 Closes: #88464, #77743
443 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
444 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
445 us to deal with that gracefully.
446 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
448 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
449 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
450 a while, Closes: #51225
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
454 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
460 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
463 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
467 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
471 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
476 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
478 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
479 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
480 don't make packlist files.
481 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
482 debhelper coding standards.
483 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
484 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
488 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
490 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
491 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
495 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
498 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
499 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
500 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
501 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
502 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
503 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
504 but is mildly deprecated.
505 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
506 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
507 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
508 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
509 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
510 switching to statoverrides..
511 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
512 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
513 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
514 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
515 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
516 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
518 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
519 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
520 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
521 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
522 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
523 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
524 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
525 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
526 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
528 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
529 variable names, pod man pages).
530 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
531 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
532 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
533 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
534 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
535 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
536 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
540 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
546 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
548 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
553 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
556 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
560 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
562 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
563 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
564 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
568 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
570 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
571 they were previously ignored.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
575 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
577 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
578 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
582 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
584 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
585 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
586 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
590 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
592 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
596 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
598 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
599 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
603 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
605 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
606 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
607 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
608 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
609 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
610 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
611 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
612 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
613 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
614 it is an obsolete program.
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
618 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
620 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
624 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
626 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
628 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
630 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
634 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
636 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
638 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
640 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
644 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
650 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
652 * typo: Closes, #78567
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
656 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
658 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
662 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
664 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
668 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
670 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
671 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
672 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
673 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
674 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
675 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
679 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
681 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
682 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
687 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
689 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
690 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
691 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
692 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
693 backwards-compatability.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
697 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
699 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
700 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
701 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
702 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
703 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
704 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
705 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
707 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
708 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
709 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
711 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
713 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
714 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
715 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
716 should now be raised to severity important..
717 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
718 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
722 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
724 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
725 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
730 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
732 * Typo, Closes: #77441
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
736 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Completed the fix from the last version.
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
742 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
748 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
750 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
755 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
757 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
758 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
759 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
760 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
761 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
765 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
771 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
774 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
775 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
776 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
777 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
778 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
779 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
784 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
787 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
791 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
797 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
800 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
805 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
807 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
808 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
809 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
810 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
811 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
815 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
817 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
819 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
822 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
825 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
826 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
829 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
831 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
832 the TODO entry about it.
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
836 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
843 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
846 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
847 prevent that. Closes: #73052
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
851 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
853 * Typo, Closes: #72932
854 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
855 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
856 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
857 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
861 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
867 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
869 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
874 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
877 (this appears to be logal).
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
881 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
883 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
884 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
885 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
886 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
887 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
891 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
897 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
899 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
900 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
901 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
902 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
903 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
907 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
913 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
916 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
920 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
927 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
929 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
930 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
931 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
932 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
937 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
944 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
950 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
952 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
953 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
954 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
955 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
956 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
957 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
958 notice until v2 is complete.
959 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
960 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
961 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
962 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
963 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
964 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
966 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
967 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
968 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
969 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
973 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
979 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
986 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
989 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
993 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1000 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1003 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1004 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1005 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1006 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1011 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1014 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1015 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1016 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1021 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1024 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1025 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1029 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1032 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1036 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1039 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1043 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1050 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1053 depend on the build and install targets.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1057 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1060 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1064 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1071 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1077 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1083 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1086 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1087 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1088 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1089 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1090 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1091 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1093 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1094 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1095 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1096 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1097 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1098 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1099 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1103 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1109 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1115 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1118 right place. Closes: #55065
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1122 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1129 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1132 * Copyright date updates.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1136 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1139 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1144 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1150 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1157 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1163 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1169 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1175 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1178 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1179 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1180 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1181 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1182 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1183 bits until all files have been registered.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1187 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_installmanpages:
1190 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1191 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1192 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1193 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1194 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1195 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1196 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1197 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1198 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1199 otherwise change the result at all.
1201 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1202 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1203 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1204 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1205 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1210 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1216 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1219 act on files that don't exist.
1220 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1221 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1222 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1224 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1225 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1226 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1227 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1231 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1233 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1237 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1243 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1246 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1250 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1253 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1255 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1256 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1257 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1261 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1264 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1265 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1266 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1267 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1268 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1269 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1270 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1272 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1274 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1278 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1285 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1291 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1297 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1300 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1304 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1310 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1316 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1319 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1320 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1321 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1322 I made some changes, though:
1323 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1324 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1325 that is a clear violation of policy.
1326 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1327 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1328 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1329 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1330 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1331 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1332 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1333 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1334 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1336 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1340 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1346 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1349 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1353 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1356 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1357 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1362 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1368 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1375 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1378 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1379 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1380 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1381 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1382 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1383 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1384 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1388 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1394 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1398 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1399 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1403 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1409 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1412 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1416 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1419 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1420 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1424 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1426 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1431 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1435 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1439 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1442 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1443 for the dependancies to be generated.
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1447 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1450 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1454 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1457 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1458 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1459 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1464 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1467 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1468 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1472 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1478 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1484 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1487 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1491 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1500 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1501 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1502 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1503 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1504 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1505 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1506 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1507 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1508 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1509 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1510 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1511 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1515 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1518 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1519 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1521 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1522 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1523 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1524 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1525 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1526 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1528 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1529 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1533 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1536 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1540 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1547 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1550 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1555 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1558 for building debhelper.
1559 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1563 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1570 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1573 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1577 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1580 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1581 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1582 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1583 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1584 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1585 it's always available.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1589 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1592 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1593 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1594 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1598 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1601 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1602 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1606 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1612 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1615 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1619 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1625 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1628 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1629 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1630 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1634 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1637 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1642 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1645 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1646 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1648 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1649 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1653 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1659 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1665 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1668 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1672 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1675 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1676 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1678 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1682 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1685 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1686 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1687 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1691 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1694 things if CDPATH is set.
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1698 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1704 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1707 seems to make sense for the transition.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1711 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1714 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1719 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1722 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1723 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1727 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1730 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1734 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1737 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1738 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1739 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1740 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1744 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1750 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1753 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1754 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1755 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1756 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1757 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1758 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1759 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1760 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1761 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1762 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1767 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1770 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1771 * README: mention doc/v2
1772 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1773 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1777 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1779 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1780 be using this script RSN.
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1784 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1787 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1788 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1789 more than 1 init script.
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1793 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1796 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1800 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1802 * Changed perl version detection.
1803 * Changed call to find.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1807 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1810 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1812 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1817 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Really include dh_installpam.
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1823 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1826 * Wrote man page for same.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1830 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1833 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1834 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1839 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1846 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1849 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1850 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1851 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1852 x bit was being set!
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1856 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1859 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1860 well. (Closes: 38900)
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1864 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1867 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1868 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1872 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1878 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1885 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1891 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1894 help from Julian Gilbey.
1895 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1896 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1897 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1898 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1899 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1900 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1901 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1906 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1912 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1919 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1925 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1931 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1934 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1938 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1941 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1945 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1948 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1952 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1958 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1961 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1965 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1971 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1977 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1980 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1981 may be deleted. (#35845)
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1985 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Various man page enhancements.
1988 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1993 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1996 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1997 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2001 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2004 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2005 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2006 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2008 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2009 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2014 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2020 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Another very minor typo fix.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2026 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Very minor typo fix.
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2032 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2035 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2036 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2040 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2046 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2049 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2050 variables properly (#34850).
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2054 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2060 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2063 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2064 (automatically generated by build process).
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2068 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2070 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2074 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2077 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2078 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2080 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2084 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2087 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2091 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * README: minor typo fix.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2097 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2100 leave it at that. :-)
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2104 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2110 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2116 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2119 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2120 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2121 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2125 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2128 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2132 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2134 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2135 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2139 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2142 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2143 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2144 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2145 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2149 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2152 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2153 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2154 Craig Small for spotting this.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2158 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2161 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2162 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2166 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2172 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2175 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2179 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2181 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2182 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2183 working on the last version of debhelper.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2187 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2190 being made. (#23255)
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2194 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2200 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2203 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2207 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2210 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2211 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2212 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2213 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2217 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2220 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2221 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2222 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2223 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2225 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2226 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2228 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2233 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2235 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2239 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2245 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2248 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2249 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2250 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2251 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2252 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2253 suidregister actually supports it.
2254 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2255 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2259 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2266 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2269 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2270 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2271 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2272 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2273 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2274 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2275 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2279 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2281 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2282 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2286 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2289 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2290 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2291 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2292 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2296 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2299 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2301 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2302 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2303 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2304 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2305 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2306 effect, either. (#30118)
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2310 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2316 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2319 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2320 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2324 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2330 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2333 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2334 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2335 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2336 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2340 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2343 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2344 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2348 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2354 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2357 packages, painlessly.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2361 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2367 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2373 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2379 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * The perl conversion is complete.
2383 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2385 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2386 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2387 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2392 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2395 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2396 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2397 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2401 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2404 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2406 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2408 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2409 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2413 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2416 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2417 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2421 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2427 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2429 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2430 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2431 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2432 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2433 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2434 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2438 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2441 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2442 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2443 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2444 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2448 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2451 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2455 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2458 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2459 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2460 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2461 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2462 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2463 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2464 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2465 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2469 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2475 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2477 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2478 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2479 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2480 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2485 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2488 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2492 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2495 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2499 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2502 sections of shared libraries.
2503 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2504 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2505 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2506 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2507 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2508 things you don't want them to.
2509 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2510 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2514 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2517 shared libraries. (#26414)
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2521 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2523 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2524 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2525 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2526 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2530 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2534 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2536 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2537 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2538 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2539 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2540 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2544 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2547 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2551 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2554 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2555 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2560 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2563 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2567 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2570 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2571 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2572 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2573 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2574 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2576 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2577 remove debian/files properly.
2578 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2579 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2580 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2581 * Removed bogus menu file.
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2585 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2588 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2592 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2595 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2596 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2597 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2598 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2599 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2600 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2604 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2607 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2608 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2609 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2610 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2614 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2621 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2623 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2624 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2625 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2627 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2628 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2629 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2630 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2631 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2632 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2636 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2639 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2640 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2641 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2642 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2643 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2644 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2645 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2646 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2647 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2648 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2649 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2650 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2651 passed any switches.
2652 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2656 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2659 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2660 at all for a long while.
2661 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2662 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2663 large chunks in the process.
2664 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2665 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2666 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2671 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2674 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2676 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2681 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2684 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2685 that don't always have the same files in them.
2686 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2687 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2688 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2692 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2696 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2697 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2698 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2699 updating 27 man pages.
2700 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2701 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2702 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2703 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2704 programs act on. (#25247)
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2708 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2712 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2713 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2714 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2715 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2716 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2717 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2722 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2729 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2736 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2739 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2743 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2749 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2752 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2753 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2754 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2755 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2756 package by accident.
2757 * Is version 1.0 next?
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2761 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2764 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2765 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2769 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2772 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2773 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2774 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2775 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2776 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2778 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2783 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2786 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2787 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2791 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2794 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2798 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2801 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2802 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2807 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2813 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2816 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2817 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2822 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2828 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2831 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2832 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2833 past week. Thanks, guys!
2835 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2836 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2837 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2838 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2839 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2840 would do in the same situation.
2841 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2842 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2844 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2846 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2847 permissions changed.
2848 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2849 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2850 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2851 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2852 files are treated identically.
2853 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2854 * Minor man page fixes.
2855 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2856 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2857 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2861 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2864 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2865 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2866 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2867 use -X multiple times, too.
2868 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2869 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2873 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2876 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2877 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2881 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2884 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2888 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2891 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2892 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2893 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2894 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2895 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2896 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2897 shape if you're starting a new package.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2901 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2904 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2908 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2911 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2912 because of missing symlinks.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2916 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2922 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2925 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2926 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2927 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2928 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2929 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2931 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2932 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2936 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2938 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2939 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2940 to be changed after the fact :-)
2941 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2945 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2947 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2948 no version string after the -V.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2952 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2954 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2955 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2960 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2963 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2967 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2970 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2971 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2972 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2973 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2974 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2975 I always welcome corrections!
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2979 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2985 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2988 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2989 * Documented this new switch.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2993 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2996 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2997 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2998 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2999 no packages use the old behavior.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3003 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3006 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3007 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3011 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3014 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3018 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3024 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3027 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3031 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3034 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3035 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3036 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3040 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3046 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3049 into the source package by accident.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3053 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3056 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3057 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3058 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3059 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3060 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3061 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3066 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3070 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3071 inspired to implement some of it.
3072 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3076 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3078 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3079 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3083 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3085 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3086 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3087 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3091 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3094 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3095 have done.) (#17598)
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3099 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3105 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3111 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3114 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3118 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3121 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3122 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3126 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3129 argument processor in perl.
3130 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3131 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3132 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3133 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3137 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3140 type directories. (#16933)
3141 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3142 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3143 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3144 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3145 are supported. (#16935)
3146 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3151 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3154 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3158 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3162 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3163 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3164 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3165 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3166 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3167 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3171 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3174 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3175 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3177 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3178 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3179 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3180 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3181 a given package, or -i or -a.
3182 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3183 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3184 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3185 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3186 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3187 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3188 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3189 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3190 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3192 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3193 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3194 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3198 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3201 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3202 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3207 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3209 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3210 does not have a section.
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3214 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3217 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3218 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3219 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3223 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * Fixed typo #16215.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3229 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3232 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3233 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3234 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3235 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3236 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3241 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3244 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3245 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3246 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3251 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3257 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3263 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3266 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3267 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3268 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3269 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3270 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3271 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3275 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3281 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3284 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3288 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3291 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3292 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3293 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3297 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3300 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3304 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3310 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3313 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3317 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3320 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3324 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3326 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3330 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3333 postinst, postrm, etc.
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3337 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3343 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3346 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3347 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3348 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3349 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3350 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3354 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3357 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3358 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3362 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3365 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3369 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3372 installing package files into.
3373 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3378 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3382 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3386 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3388 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3392 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3395 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3399 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3402 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3403 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3404 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3405 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3409 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3411 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3412 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3413 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3414 multiple binary packages.
3415 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3416 should rebuild them with this version.
3417 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3421 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3424 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3428 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3431 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3435 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3438 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3439 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3440 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3441 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3442 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3443 debian/README.debian.
3444 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3445 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3446 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3447 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3448 in a few situations.)
3450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3452 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3454 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3458 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3464 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3467 * Fixed several man pages.
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3471 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3474 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3475 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3479 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3482 is ready for general use.
3483 * Added man pages for all commands.
3484 * Multiple binary package support.
3485 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3486 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3487 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3489 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3490 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3491 auto-installed as parameters.
3492 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3494 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3497 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3498 the package build directory it is to act on.
3499 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3500 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3501 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3505 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3507 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3508 ready to replace debstd.
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400