1 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
7 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
11 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
13 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
15 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
17 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
18 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
20 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
22 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
24 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
26 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
27 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
28 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
29 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
30 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
34 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
36 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
37 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
41 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
44 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
45 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
49 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
53 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
58 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
62 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
64 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
66 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
68 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
69 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
70 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
75 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
78 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
79 practice. Closes: #163303
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
83 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
89 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
96 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
98 * The "reverse hangover" release.
99 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
101 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
102 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
103 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
104 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
105 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
109 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
112 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
117 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
123 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
130 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
133 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
138 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
144 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
150 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
156 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
158 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
163 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
166 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
167 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
168 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
169 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
174 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Typo, Closes: #155323
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
180 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
182 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
187 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
190 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
191 * Removed dh_installxaw.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
195 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
198 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
199 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
200 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
201 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
202 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
206 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
209 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
211 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
216 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
218 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
219 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
223 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
225 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
226 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
227 right thing. Closes: #150644
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
231 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
238 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
240 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
245 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
248 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
249 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
254 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
256 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
260 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
263 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
267 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
270 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
271 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
276 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
279 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
283 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
285 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
289 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
291 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
292 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
293 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
297 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
303 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
305 * Removing perl warning message.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
309 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
312 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
313 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
314 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
315 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
316 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
317 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
318 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
319 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
323 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
329 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
331 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
336 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
339 debconf-mergetemplate.
340 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
341 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
345 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
347 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
348 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
349 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
350 dh_install, which ...
351 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
352 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
353 mess, as it uses debian/install.
354 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
355 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
356 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
357 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
358 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
359 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
360 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
361 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
362 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
363 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
364 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
366 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
367 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
368 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
369 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
370 course there's -X ..)
371 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
372 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
373 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
375 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
376 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
377 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
378 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
379 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
384 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
386 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
390 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Typo, Closes: #139176
393 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
397 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
403 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
409 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
411 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
415 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
417 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
421 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
424 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
425 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
426 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
427 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
429 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
430 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
434 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
440 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Typo, Closes: #132454
443 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
447 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
449 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
450 upset. Closes: #131322
452 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
454 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
457 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
458 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
459 line, as well as in debian/rules.
460 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
461 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
462 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
463 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
464 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
465 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
466 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
467 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
468 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
469 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
470 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
471 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
473 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
477 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
479 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
480 - Better indenting of generated code.
481 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
485 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
489 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
490 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
491 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
492 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
493 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
494 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
495 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
499 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
502 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
506 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
509 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
510 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
511 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
512 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
513 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
514 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
515 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
516 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
517 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
518 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
519 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
520 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
521 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
522 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
523 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
528 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
534 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
537 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
538 * fixed dh_testdir man page
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
542 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Typo, Closes: #122679
545 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
546 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
550 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
552 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
556 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
559 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
560 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
561 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
562 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
563 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
568 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
570 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
574 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
576 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
577 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
581 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
583 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
584 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
589 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Typo, Closes: #114135
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
595 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
598 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
602 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
608 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
610 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
612 Also some indentation fixes.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
616 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
619 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
620 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
621 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
622 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
623 Closes: #106514, #85520
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
627 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
629 * Typo, Closes: #104405
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
633 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
635 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
639 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
641 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
645 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
647 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
651 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
657 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
660 change it in debhelper v4..
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
664 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
670 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
673 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
677 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
680 is not essential. Closes: #100430
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
684 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
690 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
693 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
694 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
695 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
696 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
697 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
698 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
699 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
700 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
701 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
702 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
703 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
704 prefixed with ".debhelper")
706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
708 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
710 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
711 look just like shared libs, but are not.
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
715 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
717 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
722 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
724 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
725 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
726 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
727 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
728 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
729 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
730 program those options go to. So, for example,
731 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
732 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
733 something complex. Closes: #89311
734 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
738 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
740 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
741 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
742 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
743 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
747 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
750 through loop. Closes: #98598
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
754 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Missing semi-colon.
757 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
758 this (dh_* should be called, really).
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
762 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
765 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
766 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
767 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
771 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
773 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
774 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
775 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
779 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
781 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
782 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
786 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
789 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
790 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
794 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
797 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
798 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
799 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
803 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
806 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
807 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
808 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
812 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
815 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
819 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
821 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
825 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
827 * Typo, Closes: #92407
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
831 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
837 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
839 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
843 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
846 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
850 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
852 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
853 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
854 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
855 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
856 followed. Closes: #85483
858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
860 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
862 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
863 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
864 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
868 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
871 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
872 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
873 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
874 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
875 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
876 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
877 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
878 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
879 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
880 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
881 Closes: #88464, #77743
882 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
883 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
884 us to deal with that gracefully.
885 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
887 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
888 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
889 a while, Closes: #51225
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
893 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
899 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
901 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
902 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
906 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
910 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
915 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
918 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
919 don't make packlist files.
920 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
921 debhelper coding standards.
922 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
923 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
927 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
930 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
934 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
937 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
938 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
939 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
940 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
941 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
942 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
943 but is mildly deprecated.
944 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
945 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
946 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
947 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
948 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
949 switching to statoverrides..
950 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
951 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
952 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
953 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
954 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
955 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
957 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
958 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
959 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
960 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
961 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
962 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
963 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
964 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
965 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
967 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
968 variable names, pod man pages).
969 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
970 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
971 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
972 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
973 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
974 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
975 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
979 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
981 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
985 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
987 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
992 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
995 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
999 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1001 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1002 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1003 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1007 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1009 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1010 they were previously ignored.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1014 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1016 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1017 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1021 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1023 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1024 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1025 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1029 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1031 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1035 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1037 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1038 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1042 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1044 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1045 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1046 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1047 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1048 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1049 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1050 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1051 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1052 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1053 it is an obsolete program.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1057 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1059 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1063 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1067 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1069 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1073 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1075 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1077 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1079 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1083 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1089 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * typo: Closes, #78567
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1095 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1101 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1107 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1110 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1111 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1112 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1113 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1114 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1118 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1120 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1121 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1126 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1128 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1129 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1130 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1131 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1132 backwards-compatability.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1136 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1139 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1140 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1141 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1142 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1143 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1144 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1146 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1147 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1148 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1150 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1152 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1153 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1154 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1155 should now be raised to severity important..
1156 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1157 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1161 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1164 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1169 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1175 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1181 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1183 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1187 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1194 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1197 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1198 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1199 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1200 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1204 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1210 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1213 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1214 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1215 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1216 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1217 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1218 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1223 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1225 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1226 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1230 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1232 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1236 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1239 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1244 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1247 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1248 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1249 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1250 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1254 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1258 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1261 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1264 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1265 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1268 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1270 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1271 the TODO entry about it.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1275 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1282 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1285 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1286 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1290 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1293 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1294 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1295 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1296 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1300 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1306 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1313 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1316 (this appears to be logal).
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1320 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1323 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1324 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1325 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1326 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1330 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1336 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1339 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1340 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1341 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1342 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1346 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1352 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1355 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1359 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1366 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1369 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1370 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1371 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1376 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1383 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1389 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1392 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1393 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1394 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1395 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1396 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1397 notice until v2 is complete.
1398 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1399 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1400 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1401 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1402 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1403 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1405 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1406 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1407 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1408 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1412 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1418 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1425 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1428 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1432 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1439 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1442 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1443 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1444 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1445 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1450 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1453 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1454 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1455 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1460 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1463 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1464 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1468 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1471 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1475 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1477 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1478 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1482 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1492 depend on the build and install targets.
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1496 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1499 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1503 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1510 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1516 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1522 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1525 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1526 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1527 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1528 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1529 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1530 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1532 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1533 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1534 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1535 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1536 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1537 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1538 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1542 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1548 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1554 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1557 right place. Closes: #55065
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1561 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1568 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1571 * Copyright date updates.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1575 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1578 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1583 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1589 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1596 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1602 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1608 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1614 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1617 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1618 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1619 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1620 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1621 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1622 bits until all files have been registered.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1626 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_installmanpages:
1629 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1630 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1631 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1632 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1633 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1634 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1635 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1636 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1637 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1638 otherwise change the result at all.
1640 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1641 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1642 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1643 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1644 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1649 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1655 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1658 act on files that don't exist.
1659 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1660 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1661 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1663 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1664 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1665 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1666 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1670 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1676 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1682 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1685 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1689 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1692 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1694 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1695 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1696 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1700 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1703 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1704 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1705 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1706 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1707 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1708 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1709 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1711 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1713 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1717 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1724 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1730 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1736 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1739 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1743 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1749 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1755 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1758 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1759 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1760 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1761 I made some changes, though:
1762 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1763 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1764 that is a clear violation of policy.
1765 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1766 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1767 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1768 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1769 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1770 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1771 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1772 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1773 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1775 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1779 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1781 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1785 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1787 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1788 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1792 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1795 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1796 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1801 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1807 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1809 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1814 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1816 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1817 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1818 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1819 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1820 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1821 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1822 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1823 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1827 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1833 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1835 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1837 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1838 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1842 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1848 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1851 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1855 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1858 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1859 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1863 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1865 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1870 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1874 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1878 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1881 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1882 for the dependancies to be generated.
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1886 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1889 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1893 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1896 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1897 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1898 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1903 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1906 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1907 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1911 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1917 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1923 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1925 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1926 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1930 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1936 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1939 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1940 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1941 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1942 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1943 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1944 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1945 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1946 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1947 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1948 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1949 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1950 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1954 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1957 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1958 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1960 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1961 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1962 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1963 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1964 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1965 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1967 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1968 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1972 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1975 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1979 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1986 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1989 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1994 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1997 for building debhelper.
1998 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2002 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2009 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2012 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2016 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2019 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2020 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2021 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2022 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2023 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2024 it's always available.
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2028 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2031 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2032 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2033 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2037 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2039 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2040 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2041 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2045 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2051 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2054 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2058 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2064 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2067 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2068 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2069 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2073 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2076 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2081 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2084 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2085 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2087 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2088 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2092 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2098 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2104 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2107 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2111 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2114 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2115 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2117 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2121 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2124 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2125 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2126 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2130 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2133 things if CDPATH is set.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2137 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2143 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2146 seems to make sense for the transition.
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2150 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2153 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2158 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2161 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2162 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2166 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2169 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2173 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2176 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2177 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2178 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2179 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2183 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2189 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2192 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2193 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2194 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2195 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2196 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2197 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2198 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2199 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2200 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2201 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2206 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2209 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2210 * README: mention doc/v2
2211 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2212 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2216 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2218 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2219 be using this script RSN.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2223 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2226 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2227 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2228 more than 1 init script.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2232 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2235 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2239 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Changed perl version detection.
2242 * Changed call to find.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2246 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2249 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2251 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2256 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * Really include dh_installpam.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2262 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2265 * Wrote man page for same.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2269 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2272 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2273 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2278 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2285 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2288 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2289 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2290 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2291 x bit was being set!
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2295 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2298 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2299 well. (Closes: 38900)
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2303 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2306 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2307 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2311 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2317 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2324 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2330 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2333 help from Julian Gilbey.
2334 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2335 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2336 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2337 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2338 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2339 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2340 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2345 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2351 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2358 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2364 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2370 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2373 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2377 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2380 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2384 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2387 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2391 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2397 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2400 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2404 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2410 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2416 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2419 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2420 may be deleted. (#35845)
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2424 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * Various man page enhancements.
2427 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2432 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2435 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2436 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2440 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2443 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2444 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2445 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2447 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2448 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2453 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2459 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2461 * Another very minor typo fix.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2465 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * Very minor typo fix.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2471 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2474 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2475 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2479 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2485 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2488 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2489 variables properly (#34850).
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2493 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2499 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2502 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2503 (automatically generated by build process).
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2507 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2509 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2513 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2516 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2517 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2519 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2523 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2526 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2530 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2532 * README: minor typo fix.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2536 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2539 leave it at that. :-)
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2543 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2549 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2555 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2558 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2559 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2560 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2564 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2566 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2567 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2571 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2574 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2578 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2581 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2582 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2583 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2584 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2588 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2591 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2592 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2593 Craig Small for spotting this.
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2597 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2600 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2601 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2605 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2607 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2611 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2614 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2618 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2620 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2621 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2622 working on the last version of debhelper.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2626 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2629 being made. (#23255)
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2633 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2639 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2642 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2646 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2649 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2650 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2651 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2652 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2656 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2659 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2660 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2661 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2662 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2664 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2665 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2667 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2672 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2678 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2684 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2687 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2688 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2689 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2690 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2691 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2692 suidregister actually supports it.
2693 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2694 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2698 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2705 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2708 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2709 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2710 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2711 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2712 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2713 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2714 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2718 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2720 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2721 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2725 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2728 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2729 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2730 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2731 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2735 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2738 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2740 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2741 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2742 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2743 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2744 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2745 effect, either. (#30118)
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2749 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2755 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2758 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2759 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2763 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2769 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2772 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2773 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2774 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2775 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2779 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2782 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2783 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2787 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2793 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2796 packages, painlessly.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2800 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2806 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2812 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2818 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * The perl conversion is complete.
2822 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2824 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2825 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2826 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2831 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2834 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2835 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2836 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2840 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2843 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2845 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2847 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2848 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2852 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2854 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2855 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2856 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2860 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2862 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2866 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2869 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2870 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2871 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2872 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2873 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2877 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2880 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2881 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2882 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2883 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2887 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2890 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2894 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2897 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2898 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2899 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2900 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2901 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2902 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2903 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2904 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2908 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2914 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2917 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2918 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2919 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2924 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2926 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2927 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2931 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2934 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2938 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2941 sections of shared libraries.
2942 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2943 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2944 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2945 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2946 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2947 things you don't want them to.
2948 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2949 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2953 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2956 shared libraries. (#26414)
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2960 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2962 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2963 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2964 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2965 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2969 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2973 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2975 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2976 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2977 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2978 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2979 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2983 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2986 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2990 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2993 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2994 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2999 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3002 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3006 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3009 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3010 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3011 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3012 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3013 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3015 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3016 remove debian/files properly.
3017 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3018 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3019 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3020 * Removed bogus menu file.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3024 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3027 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3031 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3033 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3034 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3035 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3036 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3037 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3038 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3039 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3043 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3046 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3047 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3048 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3049 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3053 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3060 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3063 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3064 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3066 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3067 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3068 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3069 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3070 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3071 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3075 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3078 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3079 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3080 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3081 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3082 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3083 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3084 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3085 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3086 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3087 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3088 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3089 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3090 passed any switches.
3091 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3095 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3098 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3099 at all for a long while.
3100 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3101 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3102 large chunks in the process.
3103 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3104 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3105 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3110 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3113 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3115 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3120 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3123 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3124 that don't always have the same files in them.
3125 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3126 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3127 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3131 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3135 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3136 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3137 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3138 updating 27 man pages.
3139 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3140 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3141 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3142 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3143 programs act on. (#25247)
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3147 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3151 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3152 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3153 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3154 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3155 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3156 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3161 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3168 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3175 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3178 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3182 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3188 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3191 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3192 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3193 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3194 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3195 package by accident.
3196 * Is version 1.0 next?
3198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3200 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3203 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3204 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3208 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3210 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3211 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3212 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3213 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3214 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3215 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3217 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3222 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3225 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3226 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3230 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3232 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3233 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3237 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3240 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3241 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3246 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3248 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3252 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3255 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3256 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3261 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3263 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3267 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3270 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3271 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3272 past week. Thanks, guys!
3274 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3275 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3276 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3277 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3278 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3279 would do in the same situation.
3280 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3281 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3283 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3285 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3286 permissions changed.
3287 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3288 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3289 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3290 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3291 files are treated identically.
3292 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3293 * Minor man page fixes.
3294 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3295 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3296 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3300 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3303 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3304 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3305 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3306 use -X multiple times, too.
3307 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3308 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3312 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3315 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3316 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3320 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3322 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3323 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3327 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3330 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3331 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3332 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3333 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3334 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3335 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3336 shape if you're starting a new package.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3340 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3343 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3347 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3349 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3350 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3351 because of missing symlinks.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3355 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3361 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3364 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3365 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3366 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3367 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3368 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3370 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3371 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3375 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3377 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3378 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3379 to be changed after the fact :-)
3380 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3384 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3386 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3387 no version string after the -V.
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3391 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3393 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3394 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3399 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3402 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3406 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3409 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3410 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3411 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3412 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3413 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3414 I always welcome corrections!
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3418 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3424 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3427 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3428 * Documented this new switch.
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3432 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3435 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3436 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3437 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3438 no packages use the old behavior.
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3442 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3445 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3446 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3450 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3453 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3457 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3463 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3466 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3470 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3473 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3474 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3475 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3479 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3481 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3485 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3487 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3488 into the source package by accident.
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3492 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3495 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3496 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3497 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3498 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3499 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3500 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3505 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3509 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3510 inspired to implement some of it.
3511 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3515 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3518 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3522 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3525 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3526 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3530 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3532 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3533 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3534 have done.) (#17598)
3536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3538 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3540 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3544 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3550 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3552 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3553 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3557 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3560 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3561 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3565 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3568 argument processor in perl.
3569 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3570 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3571 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3572 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3576 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3579 type directories. (#16933)
3580 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3581 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3582 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3583 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3584 are supported. (#16935)
3585 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3590 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3593 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3597 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3601 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3602 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3603 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3604 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3605 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3606 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3610 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3612 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3613 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3614 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3616 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3617 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3618 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3619 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3620 a given package, or -i or -a.
3621 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3622 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3623 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3624 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3625 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3626 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3627 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3628 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3629 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3631 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3632 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3633 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3637 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3639 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3640 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3641 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3646 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3649 does not have a section.
3651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3653 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3655 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3656 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3657 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3658 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3662 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * Fixed typo #16215.
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3668 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3671 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3672 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3673 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3674 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3675 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3680 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3682 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3683 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3684 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3685 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3690 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3692 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3696 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3702 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3704 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3705 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3706 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3707 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3708 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3709 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3710 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3714 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3716 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3720 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3723 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3727 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3729 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3730 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3731 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3732 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3736 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3739 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3743 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3749 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3752 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3756 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3759 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3763 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3769 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3772 postinst, postrm, etc.
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3776 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3782 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3785 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3786 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3787 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3788 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3789 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3793 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3795 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3796 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3797 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3801 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3804 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3808 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3810 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3811 installing package files into.
3812 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3817 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3821 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3825 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3831 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3834 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3838 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3841 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3842 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3843 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3844 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3848 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3850 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3851 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3852 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3853 multiple binary packages.
3854 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3855 should rebuild them with this version.
3856 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3860 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3863 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3867 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3870 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3874 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3877 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3878 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3879 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3880 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3881 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3882 debian/README.debian.
3883 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3884 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3885 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3886 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3887 in a few situations.)
3889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3891 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3893 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3897 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3899 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3903 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3905 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3906 * Fixed several man pages.
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3910 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3913 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3914 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3918 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3920 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3921 is ready for general use.
3922 * Added man pages for all commands.
3923 * Multiple binary package support.
3924 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3925 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3926 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3928 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3929 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3930 auto-installed as parameters.
3931 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3933 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3936 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3937 the package build directory it is to act on.
3938 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3939 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3940 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3944 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3946 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3947 ready to replace debstd.
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400