1 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
4 is not essential. Closes: #100430
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
8 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
14 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
17 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
18 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
19 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
20 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
21 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
22 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
23 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
24 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
25 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
26 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
27 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
28 prefixed with ".debhelper")
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
32 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
35 look just like shared libs, but are not.
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
39 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
41 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
46 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
48 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
49 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
50 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
51 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
52 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
53 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
54 program those options go to. So, for example,
55 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
56 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
57 something complex. Closes: #89311
58 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
62 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
65 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
66 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
67 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
71 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
74 through loop. Closes: #98598
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
78 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
82 this (dh_* should be called, really).
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
86 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
89 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
90 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
91 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
95 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
98 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
99 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
103 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
105 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
106 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
110 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
113 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
114 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
118 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
120 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
121 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
122 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
123 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
127 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
130 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
131 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
132 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
136 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
139 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
143 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
145 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
149 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
151 * Typo, Closes: #92407
153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
155 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
157 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
161 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
167 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
170 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
174 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
177 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
178 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
179 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
180 followed. Closes: #85483
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
184 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
186 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
187 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
188 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
192 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
195 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
196 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
197 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
198 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
199 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
200 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
201 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
202 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
203 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
204 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
205 Closes: #88464, #77743
206 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
207 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
208 us to deal with that gracefully.
209 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
211 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
212 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
213 a while, Closes: #51225
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
217 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
223 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
226 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
230 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
234 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
239 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
241 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
242 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
243 don't make packlist files.
244 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
245 debhelper coding standards.
246 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
247 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
251 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
254 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
258 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
261 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
262 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
263 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
264 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
265 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
266 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
267 but is mildly deprecated.
268 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
269 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
270 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
271 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
272 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
273 switching to statoverrides..
274 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
275 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
276 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
277 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
278 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
279 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
281 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
282 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
283 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
284 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
285 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
286 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
287 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
288 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
289 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
291 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
292 variable names, pod man pages).
293 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
294 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
295 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
296 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
297 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
298 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
299 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
303 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
305 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
309 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
316 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
319 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
323 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
325 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
326 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
327 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
331 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
333 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
334 they were previously ignored.
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
338 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
340 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
341 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
345 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
347 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
348 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
349 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
353 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
355 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
359 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
361 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
362 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
366 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
368 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
369 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
370 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
371 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
372 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
373 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
374 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
375 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
376 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
377 it is an obsolete program.
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
381 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
383 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
387 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
391 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
393 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
395 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
397 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
399 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
401 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
403 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
407 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
413 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
415 * typo: Closes, #78567
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
419 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
421 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
425 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
427 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
431 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
433 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
434 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
435 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
436 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
437 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
438 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
442 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
445 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
450 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
452 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
453 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
454 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
455 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
456 backwards-compatability.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
460 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
462 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
463 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
464 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
465 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
466 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
467 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
468 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
470 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
471 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
472 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
474 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
476 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
477 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
478 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
479 should now be raised to severity important..
480 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
481 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
485 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
488 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
493 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
495 * Typo, Closes: #77441
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
499 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Completed the fix from the last version.
503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
505 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
511 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
513 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
518 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
521 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
522 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
523 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
524 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
528 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
530 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
534 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
536 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
537 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
538 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
539 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
540 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
541 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
542 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
547 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
550 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
554 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
556 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
560 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
563 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
568 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
570 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
571 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
572 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
573 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
574 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
578 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
582 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
585 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
587 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
588 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
589 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
592 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
594 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
595 the TODO entry about it.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
599 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
606 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
609 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
610 prevent that. Closes: #73052
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
614 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
616 * Typo, Closes: #72932
617 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
618 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
619 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
620 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
624 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
630 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
637 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
640 (this appears to be logal).
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
644 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
646 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
647 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
648 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
649 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
650 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
654 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
656 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
660 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
662 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
663 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
664 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
665 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
666 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
670 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
672 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
676 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
679 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
683 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
690 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
693 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
694 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
695 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
700 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
707 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
713 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
715 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
716 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
717 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
718 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
719 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
720 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
721 notice until v2 is complete.
722 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
723 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
724 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
725 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
726 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
727 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
729 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
730 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
731 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
732 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
736 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
742 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
749 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
752 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
756 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
763 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
766 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
767 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
768 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
769 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
774 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
777 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
778 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
779 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
784 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
786 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
787 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
788 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
792 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
794 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
795 just skip files that end in -\d+.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
799 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
802 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
806 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
813 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
815 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
816 depend on the build and install targets.
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
820 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
823 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
827 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
834 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
840 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
846 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
849 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
850 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
851 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
852 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
853 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
854 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
856 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
857 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
858 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
859 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
860 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
861 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
862 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
866 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
868 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
872 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
874 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
878 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
880 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
881 right place. Closes: #55065
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
885 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
892 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Make all examples rules files executable.
895 * Copyright date updates.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
899 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
902 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
907 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
913 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
920 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
926 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
928 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
932 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
938 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
941 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
942 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
943 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
944 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
945 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
946 bits until all files have been registered.
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
950 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_installmanpages:
953 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
954 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
955 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
956 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
957 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
958 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
959 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
960 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
961 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
962 otherwise change the result at all.
964 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
965 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
966 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
967 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
968 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
973 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
979 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
982 act on files that don't exist.
983 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
984 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
985 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
987 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
988 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
989 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
990 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
994 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
996 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1000 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1002 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1006 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1009 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1013 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1016 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1018 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1019 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1020 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1024 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1027 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1028 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1029 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1030 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1031 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1032 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1033 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1035 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1037 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1041 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1048 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1054 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1060 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1063 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1067 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1073 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1079 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1082 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1083 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1084 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1085 I made some changes, though:
1086 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1087 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1088 that is a clear violation of policy.
1089 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1090 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1091 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1092 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1093 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1094 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1095 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1096 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1097 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1099 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1103 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1109 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1112 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1116 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1119 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1120 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1125 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1131 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1138 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1141 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1142 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1143 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1144 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1145 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1146 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1147 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1151 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1157 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1161 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1162 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1166 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1172 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1175 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1179 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1182 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1183 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1187 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1189 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1194 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1198 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1202 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1205 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1206 for the dependancies to be generated.
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1210 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1213 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1217 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1220 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1221 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1222 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1227 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1230 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1231 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1235 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1241 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1247 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1250 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1254 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1260 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1263 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1264 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1265 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1266 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1267 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1268 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1269 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1270 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1271 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1272 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1273 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1274 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1278 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1281 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1282 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1284 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1285 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1286 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1287 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1288 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1289 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1291 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1292 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1296 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1299 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1303 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1310 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1313 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1318 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1321 for building debhelper.
1322 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1326 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1333 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1336 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1340 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1343 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1344 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1345 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1346 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1347 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1348 it's always available.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1352 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1355 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1356 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1357 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1361 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1364 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1365 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1369 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1375 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1378 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1382 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1388 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1391 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1392 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1393 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1397 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1400 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1405 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1408 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1409 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1411 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1412 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1416 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1422 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1428 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1431 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1435 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1438 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1439 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1441 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1445 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1448 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1449 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1450 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1454 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1457 things if CDPATH is set.
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1461 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1467 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1470 seems to make sense for the transition.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1474 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1477 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1482 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1485 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1486 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1490 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1493 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1500 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1501 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1502 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1503 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1507 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1513 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1515 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1516 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1517 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1518 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1519 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1520 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1521 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1522 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1523 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1524 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1525 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1530 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1533 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1534 * README: mention doc/v2
1535 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1536 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1540 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1542 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1543 be using this script RSN.
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1547 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1550 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1551 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1552 more than 1 init script.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1556 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1559 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1563 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Changed perl version detection.
1566 * Changed call to find.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1570 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1573 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1575 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1580 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Really include dh_installpam.
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1586 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1589 * Wrote man page for same.
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1593 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1596 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1597 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1602 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1609 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1612 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1613 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1614 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1615 x bit was being set!
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1619 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1622 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1623 well. (Closes: 38900)
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1627 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1630 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1631 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1635 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1641 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1648 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1654 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1657 help from Julian Gilbey.
1658 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1659 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1660 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1661 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1662 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1663 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1664 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1669 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1675 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1682 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1688 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1694 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1697 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1701 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1704 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1708 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1711 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1715 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1721 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1723 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1724 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1728 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1734 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1740 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1743 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1744 may be deleted. (#35845)
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1748 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Various man page enhancements.
1751 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1756 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1759 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1760 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1764 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1767 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1768 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1769 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1771 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1772 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1777 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1783 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Another very minor typo fix.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1789 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * Very minor typo fix.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1795 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1798 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1799 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1803 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1809 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1812 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1813 variables properly (#34850).
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1817 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1823 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1826 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1827 (automatically generated by build process).
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1831 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1833 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1837 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1840 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1841 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1843 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1847 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1850 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1854 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * README: minor typo fix.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1860 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1863 leave it at that. :-)
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1867 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1873 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1879 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1882 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1883 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1884 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1888 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1891 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1895 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1898 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1902 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1905 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1906 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1907 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1908 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1912 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1915 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1916 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1917 Craig Small for spotting this.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1921 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1924 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1925 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1929 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1935 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1938 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1942 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1944 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1945 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1946 working on the last version of debhelper.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1950 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1953 being made. (#23255)
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1957 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1963 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1966 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1970 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1973 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1974 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1975 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1976 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1980 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1983 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1984 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1985 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1986 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1988 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1989 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1991 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1996 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2002 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2008 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2011 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2012 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2013 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2014 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2015 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2016 suidregister actually supports it.
2017 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2018 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2022 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2029 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2032 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2033 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2034 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2035 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2036 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2037 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2038 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2042 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2044 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2045 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2049 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2052 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2053 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2054 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2055 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2059 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2062 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2064 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2065 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2066 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2067 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2068 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2069 effect, either. (#30118)
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2073 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2079 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2082 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2083 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2087 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2093 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2096 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2097 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2098 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2099 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2103 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2106 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2107 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2111 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2117 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2120 packages, painlessly.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2124 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2130 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2136 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2142 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * The perl conversion is complete.
2146 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2148 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2149 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2150 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2155 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2158 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2159 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2160 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2164 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2167 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2169 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2171 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2172 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2176 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2179 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2180 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2184 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2190 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2193 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2194 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2195 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2196 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2197 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2201 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2204 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2205 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2206 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2207 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2211 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2214 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2218 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2221 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2222 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2223 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2224 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2225 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2226 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2227 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2228 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2232 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2238 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2240 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2241 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2242 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2243 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2248 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2251 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2255 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2258 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2262 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2265 sections of shared libraries.
2266 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2267 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2268 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2269 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2270 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2271 things you don't want them to.
2272 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2273 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2277 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2280 shared libraries. (#26414)
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2284 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2286 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2287 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2288 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2289 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2293 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2297 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2299 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2300 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2301 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2302 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2303 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2307 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2310 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2314 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2317 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2318 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2323 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2326 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2330 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2333 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2334 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2335 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2336 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2337 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2339 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2340 remove debian/files properly.
2341 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2342 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2343 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2344 * Removed bogus menu file.
2346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2348 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2350 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2351 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2355 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2358 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2359 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2360 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2361 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2362 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2363 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2367 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2370 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2371 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2372 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2373 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2377 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2384 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2387 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2388 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2390 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2391 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2392 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2393 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2394 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2395 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2399 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2402 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2403 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2404 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2405 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2406 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2407 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2408 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2409 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2410 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2411 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2412 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2413 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2414 passed any switches.
2415 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2419 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2422 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2423 at all for a long while.
2424 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2425 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2426 large chunks in the process.
2427 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2428 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2429 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2434 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2437 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2439 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2444 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2446 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2447 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2448 that don't always have the same files in them.
2449 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2450 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2451 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2455 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2459 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2460 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2461 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2462 updating 27 man pages.
2463 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2464 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2465 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2466 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2467 programs act on. (#25247)
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2471 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2475 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2476 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2477 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2478 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2479 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2480 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2485 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2492 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2499 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2502 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2506 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2512 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2515 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2516 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2517 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2518 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2519 package by accident.
2520 * Is version 1.0 next?
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2524 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2527 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2528 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2532 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2535 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2536 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2537 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2538 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2539 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2541 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2546 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2549 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2550 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2554 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2556 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2557 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2561 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2564 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2565 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2570 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2576 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2579 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2580 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2585 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2591 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2594 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2595 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2596 past week. Thanks, guys!
2598 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2599 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2600 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2601 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2602 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2603 would do in the same situation.
2604 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2605 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2607 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2609 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2610 permissions changed.
2611 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2612 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2613 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2614 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2615 files are treated identically.
2616 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2617 * Minor man page fixes.
2618 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2619 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2620 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2624 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2627 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2628 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2629 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2630 use -X multiple times, too.
2631 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2632 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2636 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2639 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2640 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2644 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2647 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2651 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2654 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2655 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2656 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2657 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2658 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2659 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2660 shape if you're starting a new package.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2664 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2667 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2671 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2674 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2675 because of missing symlinks.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2679 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2685 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2688 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2689 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2690 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2691 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2692 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2694 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2695 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2699 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2701 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2702 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2703 to be changed after the fact :-)
2704 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2708 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2710 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2711 no version string after the -V.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2715 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2717 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2718 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2723 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2725 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2726 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2730 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2733 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2734 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2735 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2736 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2737 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2738 I always welcome corrections!
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2742 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2748 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2751 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2752 * Documented this new switch.
2754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2756 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2758 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2759 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2760 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2761 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2762 no packages use the old behavior.
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2766 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2769 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2770 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2774 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2777 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2781 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2787 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2789 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2790 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2794 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2797 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2798 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2799 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2803 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2809 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2812 into the source package by accident.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2816 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2819 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2820 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2821 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2822 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2823 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2824 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2829 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2833 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2834 inspired to implement some of it.
2835 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2839 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2841 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2842 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2846 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2849 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2850 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2854 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2857 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2858 have done.) (#17598)
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2862 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2868 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2874 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2877 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2881 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2884 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2885 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2889 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2892 argument processor in perl.
2893 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2894 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2895 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2896 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2900 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2903 type directories. (#16933)
2904 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2905 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2906 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2907 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2908 are supported. (#16935)
2909 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2914 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2916 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2917 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2921 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2925 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2926 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2927 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2928 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2929 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2930 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2934 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2937 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2938 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2940 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2941 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2942 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2943 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2944 a given package, or -i or -a.
2945 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2946 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2947 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2948 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2949 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2950 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2951 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2952 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2953 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2955 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2956 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2957 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2961 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2964 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2965 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2970 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2972 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2973 does not have a section.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2977 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2980 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2981 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2982 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2986 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * Fixed typo #16215.
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2992 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2995 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2996 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2997 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2998 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2999 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3004 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3007 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3008 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3009 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3014 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3020 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3026 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3029 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3030 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3031 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3032 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3033 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3034 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3038 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3044 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3046 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3047 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3051 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3054 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3055 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3056 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3060 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3063 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3067 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3073 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3076 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3080 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3083 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3087 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3093 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3095 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3096 postinst, postrm, etc.
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3100 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3106 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3108 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3109 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3110 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3111 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3112 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3113 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3117 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3120 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3121 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3125 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3128 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3132 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3135 installing package files into.
3136 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3141 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3143 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3145 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3149 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3155 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3158 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3162 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3165 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3166 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3167 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3168 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3172 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3174 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3175 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3176 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3177 multiple binary packages.
3178 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3179 should rebuild them with this version.
3180 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3184 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3187 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3191 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3194 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3198 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3201 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3202 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3203 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3204 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3205 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3206 debian/README.debian.
3207 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3208 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3209 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3210 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3211 in a few situations.)
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3215 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3221 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3227 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3230 * Fixed several man pages.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3234 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3237 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3238 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3242 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3245 is ready for general use.
3246 * Added man pages for all commands.
3247 * Multiple binary package support.
3248 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3249 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3250 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3252 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3253 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3254 auto-installed as parameters.
3255 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3257 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3260 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3261 the package build directory it is to act on.
3262 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3263 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3264 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3268 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3270 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3271 ready to replace debstd.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400