1 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
4 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
8 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
11 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
15 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
21 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
27 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
33 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
36 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
37 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
38 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
42 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
45 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
49 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
52 but occasionally right and necessary.
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
56 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
59 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
60 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
61 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
62 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
63 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937a
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
67 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
69 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
70 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
72 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
73 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
74 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
75 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
76 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
77 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
78 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
79 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
80 postinst scripts for udebs.
81 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
85 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
88 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
90 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
91 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
95 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
101 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
108 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
115 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
117 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
118 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
122 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
124 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
125 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
129 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
132 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
135 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
136 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
140 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
142 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
146 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
148 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
149 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
153 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
156 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
157 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
158 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
160 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
162 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
163 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
164 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
168 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
171 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
176 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
178 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
179 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
180 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
181 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
186 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
192 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
198 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
200 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
201 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
202 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
203 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
204 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
205 associated -dbg packages.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
209 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
211 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
212 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
216 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
218 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
219 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
223 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
225 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
226 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
230 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
233 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
238 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
240 * Typo. Closes: #207999
241 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
245 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
248 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
253 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
256 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
260 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
264 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
265 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
266 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
267 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
268 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
269 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
270 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
271 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
272 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
273 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
277 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
279 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
280 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
285 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
288 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
289 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
293 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
296 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
297 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
302 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
304 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
305 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
309 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
311 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
312 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
316 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
319 out section number. Closes: #204731
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
323 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
330 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
336 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
342 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Typo, Closes: #203907
345 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
346 removal. Closes: #204286
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
350 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
353 renaming. Closes: #203548
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
357 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
359 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
360 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
361 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
365 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
367 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
371 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
377 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
379 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
383 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
386 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
387 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
388 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
392 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
395 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
396 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
400 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
402 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
406 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
408 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
413 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
416 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
421 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
423 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
424 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
428 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
431 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
433 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
434 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
438 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
440 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
441 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
446 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
449 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
453 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
455 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
459 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
461 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
465 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
467 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
468 it break hard links (see #188663).
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
472 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
475 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
479 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
485 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
489 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
490 debconf-mergetemplates
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
494 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
497 pod2man. Closes: #184013
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
501 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
504 * Typo, Closes: #183267
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
508 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
511 * Update debhelper(1).
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
515 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
517 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
518 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
519 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
520 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
521 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
522 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
526 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
528 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
529 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
530 the shell. Closes: #178524
531 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
535 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
538 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
542 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
545 undocumented.7 links anymore.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
549 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
551 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
552 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
553 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
554 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
555 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
560 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
563 files from installation.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
567 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
569 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
570 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
571 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
575 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
578 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
582 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
585 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
589 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
595 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
601 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
605 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
606 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
608 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
612 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
614 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
615 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
616 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
617 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
618 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
622 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
624 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
625 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
629 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
632 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
633 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
637 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
639 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
641 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
646 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
648 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
652 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
656 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
657 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
658 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
663 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
665 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
666 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
667 practice. Closes: #163303
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
671 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
673 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
677 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
684 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
686 * The "reverse hangover" release.
687 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
689 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
690 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
691 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
692 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
693 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
697 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
700 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
705 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
711 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
718 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
721 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
726 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
732 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
738 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
740 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
744 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
751 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
754 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
755 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
756 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
757 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
762 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
764 * Typo, Closes: #155323
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
768 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
775 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
778 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
779 * Removed dh_installxaw.
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
783 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
786 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
787 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
788 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
789 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
790 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
794 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
797 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
799 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
804 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
806 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
807 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
811 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
814 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
815 right thing. Closes: #150644
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
819 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
826 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
828 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
833 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
836 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
837 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
842 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
844 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
848 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
851 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
855 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
857 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
858 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
859 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
864 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
867 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
871 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
873 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
877 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
880 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
881 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
885 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
891 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
893 * Removing perl warning message.
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
897 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
900 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
901 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
902 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
903 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
904 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
905 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
906 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
907 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
911 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
913 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
917 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
919 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
924 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
926 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
927 debconf-mergetemplate.
928 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
929 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
933 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
935 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
936 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
937 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
938 dh_install, which ...
939 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
940 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
941 mess, as it uses debian/install.
942 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
943 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
944 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
945 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
946 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
947 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
948 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
949 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
950 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
951 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
952 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
954 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
955 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
956 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
957 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
958 course there's -X ..)
959 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
960 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
961 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
963 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
964 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
965 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
966 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
967 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
972 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
974 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
978 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
980 * Typo, Closes: #139176
981 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
985 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
991 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
997 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
999 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1003 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1009 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1012 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1013 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1014 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1015 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1017 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1018 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1022 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1028 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1031 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1035 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1038 upset. Closes: #131322
1040 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1042 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1045 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1046 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1047 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1048 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1049 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1050 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1051 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1052 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1053 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1054 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1055 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1056 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1057 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1058 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1059 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1061 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1065 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1067 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1068 - Better indenting of generated code.
1069 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1073 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1075 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1077 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1078 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1079 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1080 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1081 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1082 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1083 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1087 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1090 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1094 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1097 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1098 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1099 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1100 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1101 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1102 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1103 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1104 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1105 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1106 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1107 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1108 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1109 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1110 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1111 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1116 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1122 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1125 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1126 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1130 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1133 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1134 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1138 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1144 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1147 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1148 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1149 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1150 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1151 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1156 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1158 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1162 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1165 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1169 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1172 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1177 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1183 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1186 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1190 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1196 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1200 Also some indentation fixes.
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1204 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1207 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1208 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1209 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1210 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1211 Closes: #106514, #85520
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1215 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1221 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1227 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1233 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1239 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1245 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1248 change it in debhelper v4..
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1252 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1258 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1261 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1265 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1268 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1272 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1278 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1281 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1282 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1283 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1284 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1285 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1286 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1287 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1288 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1289 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1290 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1291 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1292 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1296 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1299 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1303 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1310 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1313 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1314 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1315 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1316 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1317 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1318 program those options go to. So, for example,
1319 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1320 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1321 something complex. Closes: #89311
1322 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1326 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1329 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1330 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1331 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1335 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1338 through loop. Closes: #98598
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1342 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Missing semi-colon.
1345 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1346 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1350 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1353 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1354 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1355 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1359 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1362 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1363 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1367 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1370 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1374 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1377 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1378 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1382 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1385 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1386 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1387 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1391 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1394 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1395 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1396 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1400 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1403 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1407 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1413 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1419 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1425 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1431 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1434 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1438 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1441 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1442 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1443 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1444 followed. Closes: #85483
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1448 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1450 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1451 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1452 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1456 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1459 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1460 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1461 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1462 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1463 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1464 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1465 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1466 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1467 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1468 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1469 Closes: #88464, #77743
1470 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1471 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1472 us to deal with that gracefully.
1473 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1475 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1476 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1477 a while, Closes: #51225
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1481 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1487 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1490 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1494 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1498 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1503 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1506 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1507 don't make packlist files.
1508 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1509 debhelper coding standards.
1510 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1511 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1515 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1518 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1522 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1525 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1526 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1527 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1528 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1529 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1530 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1531 but is mildly deprecated.
1532 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1533 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1534 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1535 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1536 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1537 switching to statoverrides..
1538 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1539 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1540 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1541 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1542 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1543 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1545 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1546 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1547 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1548 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1549 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1550 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1551 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1552 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1553 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1555 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1556 variable names, pod man pages).
1557 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1558 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1559 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1560 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1561 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1562 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1563 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1567 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1569 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1573 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1580 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1583 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1587 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1589 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1590 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1591 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1595 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1597 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1598 they were previously ignored.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1602 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1604 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1605 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1609 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1611 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1612 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1613 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1617 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1619 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1623 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1625 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1626 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1630 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1632 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1633 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1634 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1635 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1636 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1637 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1638 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1639 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1640 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1641 it is an obsolete program.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1645 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1647 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1651 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1655 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1657 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1661 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1663 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1665 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1667 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1671 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1677 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * typo: Closes, #78567
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1683 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1689 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1695 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1698 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1699 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1700 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1701 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1702 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1706 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1709 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1714 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1717 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1718 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1719 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1720 backwards-compatability.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1724 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1727 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1728 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1729 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1730 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1731 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1732 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1734 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1735 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1736 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1738 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1740 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1741 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1742 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1743 should now be raised to severity important..
1744 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1745 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1749 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1752 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1757 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1763 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1769 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1775 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1782 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1785 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1786 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1787 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1788 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1792 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1798 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1801 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1802 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1803 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1804 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1805 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1806 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1811 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1814 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1818 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1824 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1827 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1832 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1835 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1836 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1837 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1838 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1842 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1846 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1849 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1852 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1853 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1856 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1858 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1859 the TODO entry about it.
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1863 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1870 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1873 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1874 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1878 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1881 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1882 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1883 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1884 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1888 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1894 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1901 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1904 (this appears to be logal).
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1908 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1911 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1912 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1913 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1914 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1918 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1924 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1926 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1927 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1928 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1929 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1930 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1934 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1940 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1943 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1947 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1954 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1956 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1957 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1958 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1959 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1964 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1971 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1977 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1980 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1981 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1982 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1983 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1984 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1985 notice until v2 is complete.
1986 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1987 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1988 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1989 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1990 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1991 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1993 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1994 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1995 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1996 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2000 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2006 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2008 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2013 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2016 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2020 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2027 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2030 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2031 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2032 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2033 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2038 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2041 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2042 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2043 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2048 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2051 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2052 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2056 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2059 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2063 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2066 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2070 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2077 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2080 depend on the build and install targets.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2084 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2087 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2091 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2098 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2104 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2110 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2113 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2114 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2115 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2116 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2117 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2118 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2120 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2121 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2122 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2123 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2124 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2125 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2126 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2130 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2136 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2138 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2142 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2145 right place. Closes: #55065
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2149 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2156 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2159 * Copyright date updates.
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2163 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2166 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2171 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2177 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2184 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2190 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2196 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2202 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2205 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2206 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2207 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2208 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2209 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2210 bits until all files have been registered.
2212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2214 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2216 * dh_installmanpages:
2217 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2218 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2219 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2220 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2221 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2222 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2223 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2224 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2225 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2226 otherwise change the result at all.
2228 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2229 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2230 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2231 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2232 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2237 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2243 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2246 act on files that don't exist.
2247 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2248 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2249 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2251 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2252 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2253 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2254 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2258 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2264 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2270 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2273 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2277 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2280 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2282 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2283 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2284 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2288 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2290 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2291 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2292 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2293 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2294 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2295 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2296 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2297 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2299 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2301 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2305 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2312 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2318 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2324 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2327 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2331 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2337 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2343 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2346 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2347 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2348 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2349 I made some changes, though:
2350 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2351 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2352 that is a clear violation of policy.
2353 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2354 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2355 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2356 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2357 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2358 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2359 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2360 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2361 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2363 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2367 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2373 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2376 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2380 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2383 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2384 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2389 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2395 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2402 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2405 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2406 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2407 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2408 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2409 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2410 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2411 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2415 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2421 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2425 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2426 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2430 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2436 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2439 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2443 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2446 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2447 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2451 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2453 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2458 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2460 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2462 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2466 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2469 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2470 for the dependancies to be generated.
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2474 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2477 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2481 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2483 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2484 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2485 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2486 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2491 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2493 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2494 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2495 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2499 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2505 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2511 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2514 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2518 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2524 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2527 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2528 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2529 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2530 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2531 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2532 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2533 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2534 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2535 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2536 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2537 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2538 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2542 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2545 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2546 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2548 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2549 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2550 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2551 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2552 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2553 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2555 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2556 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2560 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2562 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2563 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2567 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2574 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2577 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2582 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2585 for building debhelper.
2586 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2590 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2597 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2600 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2604 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2607 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2608 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2609 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2610 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2611 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2612 it's always available.
2614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2616 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2618 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2619 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2620 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2621 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2625 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2628 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2629 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2633 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2639 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2642 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2646 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2652 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2655 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2656 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2657 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2661 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2664 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2669 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2672 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2673 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2675 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2676 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2680 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2682 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2686 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2692 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2695 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2699 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2702 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2703 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2705 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2709 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2712 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2713 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2714 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2718 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2720 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2721 things if CDPATH is set.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2725 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2731 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2734 seems to make sense for the transition.
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2738 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2741 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2746 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2749 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2750 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2754 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2757 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2761 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2764 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2765 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2766 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2767 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2771 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2777 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2780 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2781 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2782 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2783 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2784 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2785 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2786 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2787 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2788 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2789 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2794 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2797 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2798 * README: mention doc/v2
2799 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2800 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2804 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2806 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2807 be using this script RSN.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2811 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2814 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2815 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2816 more than 1 init script.
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2820 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2823 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2827 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * Changed perl version detection.
2830 * Changed call to find.
2832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2834 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2836 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2837 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2839 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2844 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * Really include dh_installpam.
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2850 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2853 * Wrote man page for same.
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2857 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2860 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2861 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2866 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2873 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2876 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2877 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2878 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2879 x bit was being set!
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2883 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2886 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2887 well. (Closes: 38900)
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2891 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2894 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2895 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2899 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2905 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2907 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2912 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2918 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2921 help from Julian Gilbey.
2922 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2923 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2924 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2925 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2926 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2927 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2928 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2933 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2939 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2946 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2952 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2958 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2961 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2965 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2968 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2972 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2975 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2979 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2985 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2988 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2992 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2998 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3004 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3007 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3008 may be deleted. (#35845)
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3012 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * Various man page enhancements.
3015 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3020 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3023 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3024 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3028 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3031 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3032 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3033 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3035 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3036 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3041 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3047 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * Another very minor typo fix.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3053 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * Very minor typo fix.
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3059 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3062 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3063 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3067 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3073 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3076 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3077 variables properly (#34850).
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3081 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3087 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3090 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3091 (automatically generated by build process).
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3095 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3097 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3101 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3104 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3105 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3107 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3111 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3114 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3118 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * README: minor typo fix.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3124 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3127 leave it at that. :-)
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3131 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3137 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3143 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3146 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3147 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3148 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3152 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3155 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3159 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3161 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3162 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3166 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3169 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3170 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3171 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3172 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3176 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3179 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3180 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3181 Craig Small for spotting this.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3185 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3188 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3189 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3193 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3199 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3202 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3206 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3208 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3209 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3210 working on the last version of debhelper.
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3214 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3217 being made. (#23255)
3219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3221 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3223 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3227 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3230 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3234 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3237 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3238 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3239 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3240 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3244 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3247 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3248 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3249 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3250 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3252 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3253 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3255 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3260 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3266 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3272 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3275 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3276 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3277 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3278 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3279 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3280 suidregister actually supports it.
3281 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3282 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3286 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3293 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3296 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3297 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3298 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3299 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3300 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3301 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3302 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3306 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3308 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3309 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3313 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3316 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3317 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3318 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3319 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3323 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3326 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3328 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3329 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3330 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3331 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3332 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3333 effect, either. (#30118)
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3337 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3343 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3346 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3347 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3351 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3357 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3360 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3361 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3362 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3363 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3367 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3369 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3370 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3371 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3375 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3381 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3384 packages, painlessly.
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3388 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3394 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3400 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3406 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3408 * The perl conversion is complete.
3410 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3412 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3413 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3414 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3419 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3422 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3423 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3424 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3428 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3431 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3433 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3435 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3436 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3440 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3443 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3444 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3448 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3454 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3457 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3458 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3459 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3460 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3461 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3465 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3467 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3468 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3469 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3470 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3471 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3475 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3478 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3482 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3484 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3485 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3486 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3487 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3488 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3489 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3490 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3491 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3492 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3496 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3502 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3505 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3506 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3507 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3512 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3515 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3519 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3522 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3526 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3529 sections of shared libraries.
3530 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3531 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3532 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3533 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3534 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3535 things you don't want them to.
3536 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3537 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3541 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3544 shared libraries. (#26414)
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3548 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3550 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3551 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3552 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3553 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3557 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3559 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3561 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3563 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3564 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3565 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3566 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3567 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3571 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3574 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3578 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3581 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3582 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3587 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3590 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3594 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3597 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3598 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3599 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3600 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3601 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3603 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3604 remove debian/files properly.
3605 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3606 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3607 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3608 * Removed bogus menu file.
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3612 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3615 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3619 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3622 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3623 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3624 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3625 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3626 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3627 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3631 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3634 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3635 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3636 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3637 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3641 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3648 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3651 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3652 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3654 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3655 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3656 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3657 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3658 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3659 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3663 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3666 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3667 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3668 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3669 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3670 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3671 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3672 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3673 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3674 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3675 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3676 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3677 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3678 passed any switches.
3679 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3683 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3685 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3686 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3687 at all for a long while.
3688 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3689 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3690 large chunks in the process.
3691 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3692 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3693 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3698 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3701 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3703 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3708 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3711 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3712 that don't always have the same files in them.
3713 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3714 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3715 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3719 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3723 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3724 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3725 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3726 updating 27 man pages.
3727 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3728 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3729 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3730 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3731 programs act on. (#25247)
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3735 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3739 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3740 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3741 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3742 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3743 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3744 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3749 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3751 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3756 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3763 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3766 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3770 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3776 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3779 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3780 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3781 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3782 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3783 package by accident.
3784 * Is version 1.0 next?
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3788 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3791 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3792 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3796 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3799 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3800 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3801 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3802 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3803 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3805 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3810 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3813 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3814 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3818 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3821 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3825 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3827 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3828 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3829 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3834 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3840 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3842 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3843 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3844 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3849 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3855 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3858 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3859 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3860 past week. Thanks, guys!
3862 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3863 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3864 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3865 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3866 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3867 would do in the same situation.
3868 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3869 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3871 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3873 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3874 permissions changed.
3875 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3876 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3877 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3878 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3879 files are treated identically.
3880 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3881 * Minor man page fixes.
3882 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3883 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3884 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3888 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3891 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3892 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3893 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3894 use -X multiple times, too.
3895 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3896 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3900 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3902 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3903 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3904 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3908 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3910 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3911 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3915 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3917 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3918 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3919 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3920 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3921 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3922 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3923 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3924 shape if you're starting a new package.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3928 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3931 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3935 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3938 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3939 because of missing symlinks.
3941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3943 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3945 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3949 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3952 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3953 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3954 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3955 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3956 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3958 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3959 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3963 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3965 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3966 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3967 to be changed after the fact :-)
3968 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3972 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3974 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3975 no version string after the -V.
3977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3979 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3981 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3982 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3987 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3990 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3994 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3997 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3998 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3999 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4000 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4001 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4002 I always welcome corrections!
4004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4006 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4008 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4012 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4014 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4015 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4016 * Documented this new switch.
4018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4020 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4022 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4023 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4024 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4025 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4026 no packages use the old behavior.
4028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4030 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4032 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4033 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4034 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4038 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4040 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4041 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4045 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4047 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4051 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4054 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4058 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4061 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4062 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4063 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4067 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4069 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4073 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4076 into the source package by accident.
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4080 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4083 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4084 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4085 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4086 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4087 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4088 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4093 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4097 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4098 inspired to implement some of it.
4099 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4103 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4105 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4106 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4110 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4112 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4113 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4114 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4118 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4121 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4122 have done.) (#17598)
4124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4126 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4128 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4132 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4134 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4138 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4140 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4141 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4145 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4148 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4149 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4153 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4156 argument processor in perl.
4157 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4158 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4159 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4160 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4164 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4167 type directories. (#16933)
4168 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4169 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4170 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4171 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4172 are supported. (#16935)
4173 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4178 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4180 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4181 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4185 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4189 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4190 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4191 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4192 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4193 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4194 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4198 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4201 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4202 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4204 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4205 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4206 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4207 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4208 a given package, or -i or -a.
4209 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4210 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4211 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4212 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4213 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4214 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4215 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4216 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4217 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4219 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4220 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4221 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4225 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4227 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4228 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4229 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4234 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4236 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4237 does not have a section.
4239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4241 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4243 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4244 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4245 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4246 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4250 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4252 * Fixed typo #16215.
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4256 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4258 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4259 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4260 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4261 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4262 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4263 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4268 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4270 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4271 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4272 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4273 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4278 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4280 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4284 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4286 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4290 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4292 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4293 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4294 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4295 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4296 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4297 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4298 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4302 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4304 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4308 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4310 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4311 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4315 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4318 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4319 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4320 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4324 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4326 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4327 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4331 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4333 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4337 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4340 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4344 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4347 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4351 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4353 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4357 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4360 postinst, postrm, etc.
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4364 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4370 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4373 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4374 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4375 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4376 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4377 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4381 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4383 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4384 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4385 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4389 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4391 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4392 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4396 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4398 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4399 installing package files into.
4400 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4405 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4407 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4409 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4413 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4415 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4419 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4421 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4422 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4426 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4429 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4430 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4431 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4432 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4436 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4438 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4439 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4440 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4441 multiple binary packages.
4442 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4443 should rebuild them with this version.
4444 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4448 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4450 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4451 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4455 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4457 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4458 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4462 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4464 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4465 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4466 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4467 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4468 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4469 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4470 debian/README.debian.
4471 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4472 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4473 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4474 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4475 in a few situations.)
4477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4479 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4481 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4485 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4487 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4491 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4493 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4494 * Fixed several man pages.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4498 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4501 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4502 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4506 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4509 is ready for general use.
4510 * Added man pages for all commands.
4511 * Multiple binary package support.
4512 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4513 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4514 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4516 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4517 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4518 auto-installed as parameters.
4519 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4521 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4524 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4525 the package build directory it is to act on.
4526 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4527 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4528 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4532 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4534 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4535 ready to replace debstd.
4537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400