1 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
8 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
10 * The "reverse hangover" release.
11 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
13 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
14 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
15 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
16 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
17 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
21 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
24 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
29 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
35 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
37 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
42 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
45 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
50 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
56 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
62 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
64 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
68 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
70 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
75 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
78 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
79 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
80 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
81 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
86 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
88 * Typo, Closes: #155323
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
92 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
97 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
99 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
101 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
102 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
103 * Removed dh_installxaw.
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
107 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
109 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
110 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
111 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
112 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
113 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
114 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
118 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
120 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
121 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
123 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
128 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
130 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
131 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
135 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
138 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
139 right thing. Closes: #150644
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
143 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
150 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
152 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
157 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
160 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
161 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
166 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
172 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
175 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
179 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
182 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
183 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
188 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
191 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
195 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
197 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
201 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
203 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
204 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
205 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
209 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
215 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
217 * Removing perl warning message.
219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
221 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
223 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
224 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
225 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
226 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
227 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
228 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
229 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
230 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
231 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
235 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
241 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
243 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
248 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
250 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
251 debconf-mergetemplate.
252 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
253 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
257 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
259 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
260 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
261 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
262 dh_install, which ...
263 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
264 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
265 mess, as it uses debian/install.
266 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
267 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
268 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
269 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
270 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
271 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
272 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
273 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
274 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
275 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
276 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
278 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
279 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
280 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
281 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
282 course there's -X ..)
283 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
284 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
285 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
287 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
288 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
289 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
290 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
291 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
296 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
302 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Typo, Closes: #139176
305 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
309 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
315 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
321 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
327 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
333 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
336 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
337 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
338 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
339 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
341 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
342 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
346 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
348 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
352 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Typo, Closes: #132454
355 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
359 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
362 upset. Closes: #131322
364 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
366 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
369 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
370 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
371 line, as well as in debian/rules.
372 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
373 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
374 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
375 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
376 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
377 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
378 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
379 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
380 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
381 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
382 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
383 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
385 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
389 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
392 - Better indenting of generated code.
393 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
397 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
401 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
402 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
403 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
404 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
405 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
406 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
407 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
411 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
414 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
418 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
420 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
421 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
422 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
423 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
424 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
425 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
426 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
427 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
428 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
429 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
430 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
431 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
432 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
433 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
434 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
435 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
440 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
446 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
449 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
450 * fixed dh_testdir man page
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
454 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Typo, Closes: #122679
457 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
458 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
462 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
468 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
471 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
472 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
473 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
474 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
475 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
480 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
482 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
486 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
489 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
493 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
496 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
501 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Typo, Closes: #114135
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
507 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
510 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
514 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
520 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
522 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
524 Also some indentation fixes.
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
528 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
531 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
532 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
533 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
534 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
535 Closes: #106514, #85520
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
539 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
541 * Typo, Closes: #104405
543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
545 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
547 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
551 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
553 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
557 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
563 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
569 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
572 change it in debhelper v4..
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
576 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
582 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
584 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
585 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
589 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
592 is not essential. Closes: #100430
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
596 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
602 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
605 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
606 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
607 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
608 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
609 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
610 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
611 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
612 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
613 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
614 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
615 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
616 prefixed with ".debhelper")
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
620 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
623 look just like shared libs, but are not.
625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
627 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
629 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
634 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
636 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
637 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
638 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
639 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
640 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
641 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
642 program those options go to. So, for example,
643 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
644 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
645 something complex. Closes: #89311
646 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
650 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
653 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
654 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
655 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
659 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
661 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
662 through loop. Closes: #98598
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
666 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
668 * Missing semi-colon.
669 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
670 this (dh_* should be called, really).
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
674 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
676 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
677 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
678 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
679 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
683 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
686 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
687 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
691 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
694 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
698 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
701 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
702 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
706 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
709 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
710 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
711 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
715 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
717 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
718 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
719 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
720 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
724 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
727 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
731 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
737 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
739 * Typo, Closes: #92407
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
743 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
745 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
749 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
751 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
755 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
758 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
762 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
764 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
765 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
766 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
767 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
768 followed. Closes: #85483
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
772 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
774 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
775 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
776 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
780 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
782 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
783 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
784 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
785 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
786 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
787 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
788 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
789 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
790 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
791 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
792 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
793 Closes: #88464, #77743
794 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
795 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
796 us to deal with that gracefully.
797 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
799 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
800 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
801 a while, Closes: #51225
803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
805 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
811 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
813 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
814 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
818 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
822 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
827 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
830 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
831 don't make packlist files.
832 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
833 debhelper coding standards.
834 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
835 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
839 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
842 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
846 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
849 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
850 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
851 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
852 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
853 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
854 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
855 but is mildly deprecated.
856 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
857 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
858 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
859 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
860 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
861 switching to statoverrides..
862 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
863 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
864 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
865 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
866 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
867 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
869 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
870 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
871 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
872 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
873 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
874 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
875 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
876 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
877 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
879 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
880 variable names, pod man pages).
881 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
882 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
883 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
884 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
885 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
886 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
887 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
891 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
897 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
899 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
904 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
906 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
907 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
911 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
913 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
914 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
915 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
919 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
921 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
922 they were previously ignored.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
926 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
928 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
929 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
933 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
935 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
936 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
937 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
941 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
943 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
947 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
949 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
950 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
954 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
956 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
957 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
958 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
959 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
960 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
961 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
962 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
963 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
964 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
965 it is an obsolete program.
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
969 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
971 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
975 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
977 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
979 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
981 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
985 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
987 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
989 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
991 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
995 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1001 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * typo: Closes, #78567
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1007 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1013 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1019 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1022 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1023 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1024 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1025 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1026 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1030 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1033 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1038 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1041 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1042 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1043 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1044 backwards-compatability.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1048 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1051 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1052 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1053 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1054 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1055 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1056 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1058 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1059 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1060 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1062 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1064 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1065 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1066 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1067 should now be raised to severity important..
1068 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1069 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1073 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1076 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1081 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1087 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1093 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1099 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1106 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1109 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1110 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1111 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1112 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1116 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1122 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1125 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1126 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1127 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1128 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1129 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1130 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1135 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1138 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1142 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1148 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1151 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1156 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1159 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1160 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1161 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1162 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1166 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1168 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1170 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1173 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1176 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1177 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1180 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1182 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1183 the TODO entry about it.
1185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1187 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1189 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1194 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1197 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1198 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1202 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1205 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1206 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1207 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1208 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1212 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1218 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1225 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1228 (this appears to be logal).
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1232 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1235 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1236 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1237 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1238 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1242 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1248 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1251 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1252 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1253 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1254 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1258 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1264 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1266 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1267 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1271 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1278 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1281 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1282 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1283 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1288 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1295 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1301 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1304 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1305 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1306 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1307 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1308 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1309 notice until v2 is complete.
1310 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1311 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1312 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1313 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1314 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1315 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1317 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1318 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1319 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1320 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1324 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1330 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1337 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1340 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1344 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1351 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1354 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1355 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1356 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1357 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1362 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1365 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1366 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1367 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1372 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1375 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1376 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1380 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1383 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1387 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1390 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1394 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1401 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1404 depend on the build and install targets.
1406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1408 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1411 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1415 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1422 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1428 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1434 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1437 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1438 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1439 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1440 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1441 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1442 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1444 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1445 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1446 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1447 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1448 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1449 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1450 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1454 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1460 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1466 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1469 right place. Closes: #55065
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1473 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1480 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1482 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1483 * Copyright date updates.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1487 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1490 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1495 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1501 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1503 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1508 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1514 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1520 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1526 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1529 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1530 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1531 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1532 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1533 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1534 bits until all files have been registered.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1538 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_installmanpages:
1541 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1542 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1543 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1544 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1545 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1546 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1547 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1548 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1549 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1550 otherwise change the result at all.
1552 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1553 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1554 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1555 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1556 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1561 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1567 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1570 act on files that don't exist.
1571 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1572 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1573 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1575 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1576 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1577 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1578 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1582 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1588 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1594 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1597 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1601 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1604 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1606 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1607 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1608 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1612 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1615 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1616 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1617 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1618 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1619 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1620 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1621 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1623 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1625 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1629 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1631 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1636 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1638 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1642 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1648 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1651 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1655 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1661 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1667 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1670 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1671 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1672 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1673 I made some changes, though:
1674 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1675 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1676 that is a clear violation of policy.
1677 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1678 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1679 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1680 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1681 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1682 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1683 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1684 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1685 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1687 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1691 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1697 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1700 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1704 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1707 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1708 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1713 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1719 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1726 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1729 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1730 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1731 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1732 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1733 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1734 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1735 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1739 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1745 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1749 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1750 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1754 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1756 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1760 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1763 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1767 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1770 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1771 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1775 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1777 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1782 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1786 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1790 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1793 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1794 for the dependancies to be generated.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1798 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1801 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1805 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1808 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1809 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1810 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1818 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1819 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1823 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1829 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1835 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1838 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1842 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1848 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1851 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1852 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1853 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1854 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1855 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1856 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1857 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1858 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1859 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1860 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1861 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1862 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1866 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1869 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1870 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1872 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1873 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1874 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1875 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1876 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1877 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1879 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1880 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1884 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1887 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1891 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1898 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1901 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1906 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1909 for building debhelper.
1910 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1914 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1921 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1924 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1928 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1931 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1932 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1933 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1934 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1935 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1936 it's always available.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1940 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1943 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1944 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1945 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1949 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1952 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1953 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1957 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1963 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1966 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1970 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1976 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1979 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1980 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1981 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1985 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1988 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1993 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1996 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1997 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1999 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2000 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2004 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2010 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2016 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2019 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2023 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2026 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2027 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2029 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2033 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2036 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2037 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2038 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2042 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2045 things if CDPATH is set.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2049 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2051 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2055 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2058 seems to make sense for the transition.
2060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2062 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2064 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2065 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2070 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2073 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2074 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2078 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2081 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2085 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2088 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2089 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2090 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2091 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2095 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2101 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2103 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2104 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2105 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2106 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2107 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2108 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2109 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2110 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2111 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2112 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2113 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2118 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2121 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2122 * README: mention doc/v2
2123 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2124 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2128 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2130 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2131 be using this script RSN.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2135 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2138 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2139 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2140 more than 1 init script.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2144 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2147 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2151 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Changed perl version detection.
2154 * Changed call to find.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2158 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2161 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2163 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2168 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * Really include dh_installpam.
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2174 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2177 * Wrote man page for same.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2181 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2184 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2185 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2190 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2197 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2200 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2201 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2202 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2203 x bit was being set!
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2207 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2210 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2211 well. (Closes: 38900)
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2215 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2218 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2219 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2223 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2229 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2236 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2242 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2245 help from Julian Gilbey.
2246 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2247 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2248 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2249 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2250 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2251 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2252 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2257 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2263 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2270 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2276 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2282 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2285 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2289 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2292 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2296 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2299 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2303 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2309 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2312 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2316 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2322 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2328 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2331 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2332 may be deleted. (#35845)
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2336 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * Various man page enhancements.
2339 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2344 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2347 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2348 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2352 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2355 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2356 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2357 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2359 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2360 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2365 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2371 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * Another very minor typo fix.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2377 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * Very minor typo fix.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2383 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2386 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2387 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2391 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2397 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2399 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2400 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2401 variables properly (#34850).
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2405 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2411 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2414 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2415 (automatically generated by build process).
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2419 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2421 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2425 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2428 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2429 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2431 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2435 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2438 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2442 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * README: minor typo fix.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2448 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2451 leave it at that. :-)
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2455 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2461 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2467 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2470 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2471 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2472 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2476 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2479 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2483 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2486 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2490 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2492 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2493 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2494 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2495 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2496 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2500 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2503 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2504 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2505 Craig Small for spotting this.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2509 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2512 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2513 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2517 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2523 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2525 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2526 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2530 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2532 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2533 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2534 working on the last version of debhelper.
2536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2538 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2540 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2541 being made. (#23255)
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2545 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2551 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2554 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2558 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2561 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2562 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2563 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2564 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2568 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2571 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2572 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2573 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2574 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2576 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2577 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2579 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2584 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2590 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2596 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2599 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2600 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2601 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2602 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2603 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2604 suidregister actually supports it.
2605 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2606 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2610 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2617 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2620 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2621 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2622 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2623 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2624 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2625 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2626 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2630 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2632 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2633 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2637 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2640 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2641 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2642 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2643 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2647 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2650 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2652 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2653 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2654 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2655 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2656 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2657 effect, either. (#30118)
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2661 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2667 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2670 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2671 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2675 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2681 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2684 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2685 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2686 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2687 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2691 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2693 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2694 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2695 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2699 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2705 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2708 packages, painlessly.
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2712 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2718 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2724 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2730 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * The perl conversion is complete.
2734 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2736 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2737 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2738 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2743 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2745 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2746 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2747 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2748 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2752 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2755 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2757 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2759 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2760 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2764 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2767 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2768 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2772 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2778 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2781 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2782 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2783 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2784 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2785 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2789 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2792 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2793 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2794 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2795 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2799 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2802 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2806 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2809 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2810 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2811 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2812 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2813 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2814 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2815 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2816 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2820 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2826 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2829 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2830 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2831 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2836 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2839 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2843 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2846 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2850 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2853 sections of shared libraries.
2854 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2855 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2856 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2857 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2858 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2859 things you don't want them to.
2860 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2861 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2865 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2868 shared libraries. (#26414)
2870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2872 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2874 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2875 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2876 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2877 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2881 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2885 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2887 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2888 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2889 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2890 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2891 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2895 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2897 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2898 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2902 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2905 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2906 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2911 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2913 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2914 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2918 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2921 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2922 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2923 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2924 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2925 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2927 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2928 remove debian/files properly.
2929 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2930 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2931 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2932 * Removed bogus menu file.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2936 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2939 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2943 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2946 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2947 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2948 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2949 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2950 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2951 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2955 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2958 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2959 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2960 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2961 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2965 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2972 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2975 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2976 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2978 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2979 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2980 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2981 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2982 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2983 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2987 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2990 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2991 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2992 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2993 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2994 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2995 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2996 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2997 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2998 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2999 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3000 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3001 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3002 passed any switches.
3003 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3007 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3010 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3011 at all for a long while.
3012 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3013 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3014 large chunks in the process.
3015 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3016 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3017 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3022 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3025 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3027 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3032 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3035 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3036 that don't always have the same files in them.
3037 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3038 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3039 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3043 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3047 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3048 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3049 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3050 updating 27 man pages.
3051 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3052 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3053 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3054 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3055 programs act on. (#25247)
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3059 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3063 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3064 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3065 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3066 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3067 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3068 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3073 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3080 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3087 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3090 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3094 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3100 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3103 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3104 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3105 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3106 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3107 package by accident.
3108 * Is version 1.0 next?
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3112 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3115 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3116 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3120 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3123 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3124 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3125 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3126 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3127 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3129 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3134 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3137 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3138 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3142 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3145 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3149 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3152 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3153 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3158 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3164 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3167 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3168 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3173 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3179 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3182 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3183 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3184 past week. Thanks, guys!
3186 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3187 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3188 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3189 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3190 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3191 would do in the same situation.
3192 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3193 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3195 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3197 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3198 permissions changed.
3199 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3200 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3201 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3202 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3203 files are treated identically.
3204 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3205 * Minor man page fixes.
3206 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3207 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3208 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3212 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3215 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3216 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3217 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3218 use -X multiple times, too.
3219 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3220 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3224 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3226 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3227 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3228 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3232 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3235 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3239 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3242 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3243 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3244 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3245 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3246 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3247 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3248 shape if you're starting a new package.
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3252 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3255 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3259 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3262 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3263 because of missing symlinks.
3265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3267 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3269 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3273 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3276 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3277 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3278 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3279 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3280 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3282 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3283 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3287 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3289 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3290 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3291 to be changed after the fact :-)
3292 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3296 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3298 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3299 no version string after the -V.
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3303 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3305 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3306 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3311 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3314 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3318 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3321 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3322 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3323 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3324 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3325 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3326 I always welcome corrections!
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3330 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3336 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3339 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3340 * Documented this new switch.
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3344 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3347 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3348 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3349 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3350 no packages use the old behavior.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3354 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3357 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3358 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3362 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3365 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3369 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3375 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3378 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3382 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3385 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3386 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3387 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3391 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3393 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3397 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3400 into the source package by accident.
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3404 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3407 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3408 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3409 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3410 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3411 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3412 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3417 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3421 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3422 inspired to implement some of it.
3423 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3427 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3430 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3434 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3437 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3438 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3442 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3444 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3445 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3446 have done.) (#17598)
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3450 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3456 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3462 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3465 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3469 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3472 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3473 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3477 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3480 argument processor in perl.
3481 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3482 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3483 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3484 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3488 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3491 type directories. (#16933)
3492 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3493 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3494 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3495 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3496 are supported. (#16935)
3497 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3502 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3505 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3509 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3513 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3514 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3515 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3516 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3517 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3518 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3522 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3524 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3525 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3526 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3528 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3529 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3530 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3531 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3532 a given package, or -i or -a.
3533 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3534 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3535 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3536 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3537 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3538 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3539 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3540 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3541 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3543 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3544 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3545 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3549 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3552 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3553 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3558 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3561 does not have a section.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3565 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3568 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3569 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3570 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3574 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * Fixed typo #16215.
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3580 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3583 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3584 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3585 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3586 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3587 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3592 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3595 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3596 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3597 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3602 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3604 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3608 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3614 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3617 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3618 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3619 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3620 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3621 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3622 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3626 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3628 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3632 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3635 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3639 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3642 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3643 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3644 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3648 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3651 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3655 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3661 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3664 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3668 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3670 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3671 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3675 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3681 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3684 postinst, postrm, etc.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3688 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3694 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3697 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3698 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3699 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3700 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3701 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3705 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3708 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3709 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3713 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3715 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3716 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3720 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3722 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3723 installing package files into.
3724 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3729 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3733 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3737 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3743 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3746 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3750 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3753 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3754 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3755 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3756 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3760 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3762 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3763 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3764 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3765 multiple binary packages.
3766 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3767 should rebuild them with this version.
3768 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3772 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3775 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3779 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3781 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3782 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3786 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3788 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3789 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3790 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3791 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3792 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3793 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3794 debian/README.debian.
3795 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3796 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3797 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3798 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3799 in a few situations.)
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3803 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3809 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3815 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3818 * Fixed several man pages.
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3822 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3825 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3826 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3830 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3833 is ready for general use.
3834 * Added man pages for all commands.
3835 * Multiple binary package support.
3836 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3837 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3838 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3840 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3841 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3842 auto-installed as parameters.
3843 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3845 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3848 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3849 the package build directory it is to act on.
3850 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3851 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3852 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3856 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3858 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3859 ready to replace debstd.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400