1 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
4 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
8 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
11 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
15 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
21 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
27 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
31 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
32 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
34 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
38 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
40 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
41 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
42 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
43 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
44 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
48 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
50 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
51 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
55 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
57 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
58 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
59 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
63 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
67 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
72 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
74 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
78 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
80 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
82 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
83 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
84 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
89 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
92 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
93 practice. Closes: #163303
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
97 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
103 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
110 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
112 * The "reverse hangover" release.
113 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
115 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
116 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
117 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
118 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
119 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
123 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
126 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
131 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
137 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
144 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
147 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
152 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
154 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
158 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
160 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
164 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
170 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
177 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
180 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
181 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
182 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
183 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
188 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Typo, Closes: #155323
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
194 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
201 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
204 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
205 * Removed dh_installxaw.
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
209 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
212 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
213 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
214 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
215 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
216 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
220 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
223 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
225 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
230 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
232 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
233 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
237 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
240 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
241 right thing. Closes: #150644
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
245 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
252 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
254 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
259 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
262 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
263 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
268 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
270 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
274 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
276 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
277 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
281 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
284 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
285 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
290 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
293 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
297 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
303 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
306 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
307 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
311 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
317 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Removing perl warning message.
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
323 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
326 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
327 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
328 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
329 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
330 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
331 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
332 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
333 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
337 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
343 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
350 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
352 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
353 debconf-mergetemplate.
354 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
355 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
359 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
362 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
363 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
364 dh_install, which ...
365 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
366 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
367 mess, as it uses debian/install.
368 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
369 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
370 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
371 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
372 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
373 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
374 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
375 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
376 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
377 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
378 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
380 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
381 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
382 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
383 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
384 course there's -X ..)
385 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
386 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
387 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
389 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
390 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
391 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
392 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
393 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
398 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
404 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Typo, Closes: #139176
407 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
411 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
417 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
423 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
429 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
431 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
435 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
438 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
439 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
440 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
441 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
443 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
444 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
448 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
454 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Typo, Closes: #132454
457 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
461 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
463 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
464 upset. Closes: #131322
466 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
468 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
471 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
472 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
473 line, as well as in debian/rules.
474 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
475 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
476 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
477 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
478 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
479 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
480 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
481 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
482 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
483 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
484 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
485 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
487 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
491 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
494 - Better indenting of generated code.
495 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
499 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
501 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
503 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
504 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
505 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
506 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
507 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
508 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
509 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
513 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
516 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
520 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
523 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
524 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
525 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
526 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
527 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
528 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
529 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
530 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
531 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
532 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
533 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
534 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
535 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
536 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
537 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
542 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
544 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
548 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
550 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
551 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
552 * fixed dh_testdir man page
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
556 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Typo, Closes: #122679
559 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
560 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
564 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
570 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
572 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
573 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
574 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
575 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
576 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
577 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
582 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
584 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
588 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
591 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
595 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
597 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
598 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
603 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Typo, Closes: #114135
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
609 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
612 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
616 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
622 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
626 Also some indentation fixes.
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
630 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
633 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
634 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
635 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
636 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
637 Closes: #106514, #85520
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
641 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
643 * Typo, Closes: #104405
645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
647 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
649 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
653 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
655 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
659 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
665 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
671 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
674 change it in debhelper v4..
676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
678 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
680 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
684 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
687 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
691 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
694 is not essential. Closes: #100430
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
698 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
700 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
704 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
707 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
708 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
709 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
710 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
711 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
712 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
713 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
714 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
715 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
716 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
717 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
718 prefixed with ".debhelper")
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
722 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
724 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
725 look just like shared libs, but are not.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
729 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
736 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
738 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
739 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
740 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
741 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
742 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
743 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
744 program those options go to. So, for example,
745 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
746 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
747 something complex. Closes: #89311
748 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
752 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
755 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
756 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
757 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
761 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
763 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
764 through loop. Closes: #98598
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
768 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
770 * Missing semi-colon.
771 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
772 this (dh_* should be called, really).
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
776 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
779 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
780 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
781 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
785 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
787 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
788 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
789 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
793 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
795 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
796 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
800 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
803 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
804 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
808 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
811 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
812 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
813 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
817 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
819 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
820 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
821 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
822 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
826 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
828 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
829 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
833 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
839 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
841 * Typo, Closes: #92407
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
845 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
847 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
851 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
853 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
857 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
859 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
860 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
864 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
866 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
867 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
868 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
869 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
870 followed. Closes: #85483
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
874 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
876 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
877 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
878 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
882 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
885 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
886 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
887 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
888 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
889 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
890 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
891 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
892 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
893 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
894 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
895 Closes: #88464, #77743
896 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
897 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
898 us to deal with that gracefully.
899 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
901 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
902 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
903 a while, Closes: #51225
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
907 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
913 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
916 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
920 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
924 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
929 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
932 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
933 don't make packlist files.
934 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
935 debhelper coding standards.
936 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
937 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
941 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
944 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
948 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
950 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
951 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
952 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
953 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
954 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
955 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
956 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
957 but is mildly deprecated.
958 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
959 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
960 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
961 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
962 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
963 switching to statoverrides..
964 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
965 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
966 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
967 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
968 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
969 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
971 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
972 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
973 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
974 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
975 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
976 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
977 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
978 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
979 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
981 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
982 variable names, pod man pages).
983 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
984 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
985 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
986 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
987 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
988 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
989 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
993 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
999 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1006 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1009 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1013 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1015 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1016 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1017 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1021 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1023 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1024 they were previously ignored.
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1028 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1030 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1031 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1035 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1037 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1038 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1039 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1043 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1045 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1049 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1051 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1052 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1056 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1058 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1059 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1060 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1061 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1062 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1063 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1064 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1065 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1066 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1067 it is an obsolete program.
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1071 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1073 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1077 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1081 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1083 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1087 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1089 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1091 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1093 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1097 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1103 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1105 * typo: Closes, #78567
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1109 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1115 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1121 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1124 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1125 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1126 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1127 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1128 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1132 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1135 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1140 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1143 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1144 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1145 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1146 backwards-compatability.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1150 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1153 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1154 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1155 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1156 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1157 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1158 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1160 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1161 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1162 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1164 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1166 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1167 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1168 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1169 should now be raised to severity important..
1170 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1171 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1175 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1178 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1183 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1189 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1191 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1195 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1201 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1208 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1211 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1212 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1213 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1214 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1218 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1224 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1227 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1228 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1229 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1230 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1231 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1232 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1237 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1240 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1244 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1250 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1253 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1258 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1261 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1262 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1263 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1264 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1268 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1272 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1275 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1278 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1279 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1282 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1284 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1285 the TODO entry about it.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1289 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1296 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1299 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1300 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1304 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1307 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1308 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1309 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1310 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1314 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1316 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1320 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1327 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1330 (this appears to be logal).
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1334 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1337 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1338 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1339 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1340 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1344 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1350 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1353 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1354 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1355 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1356 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1360 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1366 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1369 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1373 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1380 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1383 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1384 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1385 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1390 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1397 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1403 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1406 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1407 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1408 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1409 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1410 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1411 notice until v2 is complete.
1412 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1413 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1414 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1415 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1416 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1417 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1419 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1420 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1421 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1422 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1426 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1432 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1439 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1442 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1446 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1453 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1456 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1457 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1458 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1459 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1464 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1467 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1468 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1469 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1474 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1477 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1478 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1482 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1485 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1492 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1496 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1503 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1506 depend on the build and install targets.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1510 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1513 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1517 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1524 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1530 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1536 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1539 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1540 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1541 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1542 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1543 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1544 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1546 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1547 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1548 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1549 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1550 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1551 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1552 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1556 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1562 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1568 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1571 right place. Closes: #55065
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1575 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1582 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1585 * Copyright date updates.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1589 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1592 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1597 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1599 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1603 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1610 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1616 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1622 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1624 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1628 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1631 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1632 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1633 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1634 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1635 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1636 bits until all files have been registered.
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1640 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_installmanpages:
1643 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1644 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1645 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1646 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1647 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1648 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1649 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1650 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1651 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1652 otherwise change the result at all.
1654 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1655 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1656 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1657 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1658 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1663 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1669 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1672 act on files that don't exist.
1673 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1674 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1675 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1677 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1678 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1679 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1680 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1684 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1690 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1696 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1699 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1703 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1706 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1708 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1709 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1710 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1714 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1717 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1718 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1719 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1720 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1721 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1722 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1723 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1725 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1727 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1731 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1738 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1744 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1750 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1753 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1757 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1763 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1769 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1772 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1773 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1774 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1775 I made some changes, though:
1776 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1777 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1778 that is a clear violation of policy.
1779 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1780 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1781 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1782 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1783 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1784 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1785 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1786 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1787 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1789 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1793 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1795 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1799 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1802 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1806 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1809 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1810 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1821 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1828 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1831 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1832 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1833 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1834 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1835 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1836 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1837 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1841 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1847 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1851 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1852 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1856 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1862 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1865 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1869 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1872 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1873 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1877 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1879 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1884 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1888 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1892 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1895 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1896 for the dependancies to be generated.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1900 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1903 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1907 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1910 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1911 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1912 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1917 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1919 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1920 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1921 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1925 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1931 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1937 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1940 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1944 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1950 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1953 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1954 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1955 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1956 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1957 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1958 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1959 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1960 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1961 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1962 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1963 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1964 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1968 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1971 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1972 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1974 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1975 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1976 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1977 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1978 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1979 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1981 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1982 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1986 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1989 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1993 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2000 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2003 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2008 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2010 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2011 for building debhelper.
2012 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2016 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2023 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2026 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2030 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2032 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2033 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2034 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2035 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2036 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2037 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2038 it's always available.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2042 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2045 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2046 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2047 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2051 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2054 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2055 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2059 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2065 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2068 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2072 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2078 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2081 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2082 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2083 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2087 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2090 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2095 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2098 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2099 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2101 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2102 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2106 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2112 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2118 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2121 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2125 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2128 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2129 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2131 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2135 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2138 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2139 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2140 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2144 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2147 things if CDPATH is set.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2151 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2157 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2160 seems to make sense for the transition.
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2164 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2167 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2172 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2175 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2176 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2180 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2183 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2187 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2190 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2191 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2192 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2193 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2197 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2203 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2206 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2207 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2208 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2209 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2210 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2211 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2212 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2213 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2214 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2215 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2220 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2222 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2223 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2224 * README: mention doc/v2
2225 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2226 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2230 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2232 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2233 be using this script RSN.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2237 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2240 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2241 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2242 more than 1 init script.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2246 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2249 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2253 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * Changed perl version detection.
2256 * Changed call to find.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2260 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2263 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2265 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2270 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * Really include dh_installpam.
2274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2276 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2278 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2279 * Wrote man page for same.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2283 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2286 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2287 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2292 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2299 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2302 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2303 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2304 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2305 x bit was being set!
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2309 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2312 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2313 well. (Closes: 38900)
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2317 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2320 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2321 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2325 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2331 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2338 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2344 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2347 help from Julian Gilbey.
2348 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2349 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2350 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2351 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2352 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2353 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2354 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2359 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2365 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2372 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2378 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2384 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2387 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2391 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2394 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2398 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2401 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2405 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2411 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2414 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2418 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2424 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2430 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2433 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2434 may be deleted. (#35845)
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2438 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Various man page enhancements.
2441 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2446 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2449 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2450 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2454 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2457 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2458 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2459 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2461 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2462 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2467 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2473 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Another very minor typo fix.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2479 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * Very minor typo fix.
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2485 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2488 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2489 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2493 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2499 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2502 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2503 variables properly (#34850).
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2507 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2513 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2516 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2517 (automatically generated by build process).
2519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2521 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2523 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2527 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2530 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2531 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2533 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2537 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2540 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2544 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * README: minor typo fix.
2548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2550 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2552 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2553 leave it at that. :-)
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2557 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2563 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2569 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2572 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2573 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2574 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2578 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2581 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2585 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2588 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2592 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2595 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2596 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2597 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2598 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2602 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2605 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2606 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2607 Craig Small for spotting this.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2611 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2614 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2615 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2619 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2625 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2628 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2632 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2634 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2635 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2636 working on the last version of debhelper.
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2640 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2643 being made. (#23255)
2645 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2647 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2649 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2653 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2656 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2660 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2663 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2664 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2665 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2666 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2670 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2673 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2674 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2675 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2676 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2678 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2679 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2681 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2686 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2692 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2698 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2701 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2702 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2703 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2704 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2705 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2706 suidregister actually supports it.
2707 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2708 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2712 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2719 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2721 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2722 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2723 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2724 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2725 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2726 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2727 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2728 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2732 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2734 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2735 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2739 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2742 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2743 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2744 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2745 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2749 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2752 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2754 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2755 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2756 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2757 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2758 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2759 effect, either. (#30118)
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2763 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2769 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2772 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2773 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2777 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2783 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2786 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2787 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2788 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2789 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2793 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2796 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2797 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2801 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2807 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2810 packages, painlessly.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2814 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2820 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2826 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2832 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * The perl conversion is complete.
2836 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2838 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2839 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2840 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2845 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2847 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2848 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2849 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2850 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2854 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2857 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2859 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2861 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2862 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2866 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2868 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2869 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2870 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2874 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2876 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2880 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2883 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2884 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2885 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2886 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2887 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2891 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2894 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2895 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2896 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2897 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2901 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2904 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2908 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2911 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2912 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2913 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2914 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2915 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2916 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2917 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2918 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2922 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2928 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2931 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2932 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2933 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2938 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2941 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2945 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2948 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2952 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2955 sections of shared libraries.
2956 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2957 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2958 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2959 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2960 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2961 things you don't want them to.
2962 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2963 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2967 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2970 shared libraries. (#26414)
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2974 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2976 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2977 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2978 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2979 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2983 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2987 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2989 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2990 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2991 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2992 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2993 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2997 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2999 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3000 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3004 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3007 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3008 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3013 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3016 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3020 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3023 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3024 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3025 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3026 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3027 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3029 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3030 remove debian/files properly.
3031 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3032 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3033 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3034 * Removed bogus menu file.
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3038 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3041 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3045 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3048 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3049 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3050 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3051 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3052 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3053 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3057 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3060 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3061 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3062 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3063 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3067 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3074 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3077 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3078 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3080 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3081 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3082 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3083 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3084 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3085 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3089 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3091 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3092 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3093 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3094 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3095 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3096 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3097 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3098 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3099 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3100 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3101 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3102 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3103 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3104 passed any switches.
3105 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3109 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3111 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3112 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3113 at all for a long while.
3114 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3115 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3116 large chunks in the process.
3117 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3118 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3119 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3124 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3127 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3129 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3134 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3136 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3137 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3138 that don't always have the same files in them.
3139 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3140 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3141 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3145 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3149 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3150 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3151 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3152 updating 27 man pages.
3153 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3154 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3155 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3156 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3157 programs act on. (#25247)
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3161 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3165 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3166 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3167 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3168 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3169 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3170 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3175 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3182 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3189 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3192 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3196 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3202 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3205 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3206 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3207 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3208 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3209 package by accident.
3210 * Is version 1.0 next?
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3214 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3217 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3218 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3222 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3225 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3226 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3227 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3228 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3229 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3231 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3236 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3239 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3240 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3244 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3247 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3251 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3254 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3255 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3260 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3266 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3269 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3270 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3275 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3277 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3281 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3284 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3285 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3286 past week. Thanks, guys!
3288 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3289 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3290 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3291 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3292 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3293 would do in the same situation.
3294 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3295 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3297 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3299 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3300 permissions changed.
3301 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3302 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3303 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3304 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3305 files are treated identically.
3306 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3307 * Minor man page fixes.
3308 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3309 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3310 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3314 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3317 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3318 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3319 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3320 use -X multiple times, too.
3321 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3322 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3326 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3329 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3330 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3334 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3337 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3341 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3343 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3344 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3345 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3346 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3347 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3348 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3349 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3350 shape if you're starting a new package.
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3354 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3357 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3361 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3363 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3364 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3365 because of missing symlinks.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3369 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3375 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3378 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3379 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3380 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3381 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3382 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3384 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3385 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3389 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3391 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3392 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3393 to be changed after the fact :-)
3394 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3398 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3400 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3401 no version string after the -V.
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3405 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3407 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3408 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3413 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3416 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3420 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3423 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3424 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3425 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3426 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3427 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3428 I always welcome corrections!
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3432 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3438 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3440 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3441 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3442 * Documented this new switch.
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3446 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3449 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3450 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3451 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3452 no packages use the old behavior.
3454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3456 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3458 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3459 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3460 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3464 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3467 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3471 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3477 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3480 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3484 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3487 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3488 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3489 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3493 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3495 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3499 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3501 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3502 into the source package by accident.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3506 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3509 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3510 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3511 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3512 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3513 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3514 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3519 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3523 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3524 inspired to implement some of it.
3525 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3529 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3532 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3536 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3538 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3539 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3540 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3544 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3546 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3547 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3548 have done.) (#17598)
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3552 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3558 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3564 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3567 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3571 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3574 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3575 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3579 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3582 argument processor in perl.
3583 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3584 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3585 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3586 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3590 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3593 type directories. (#16933)
3594 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3595 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3596 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3597 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3598 are supported. (#16935)
3599 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3604 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3606 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3607 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3611 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3613 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3615 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3616 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3617 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3618 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3619 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3620 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3624 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3627 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3628 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3630 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3631 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3632 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3633 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3634 a given package, or -i or -a.
3635 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3636 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3637 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3638 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3639 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3640 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3641 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3642 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3643 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3645 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3646 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3647 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3651 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3653 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3654 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3655 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3660 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3662 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3663 does not have a section.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3667 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3670 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3671 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3672 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3676 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * Fixed typo #16215.
3680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3682 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3684 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3685 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3686 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3687 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3688 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3689 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3694 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3697 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3698 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3699 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3704 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3710 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3712 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3716 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3718 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3719 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3720 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3721 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3722 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3723 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3724 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3728 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3730 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3734 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3736 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3737 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3741 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3744 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3745 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3746 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3750 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3753 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3757 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3759 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3763 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3765 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3766 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3770 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3773 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3777 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3783 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3786 postinst, postrm, etc.
3788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3790 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3792 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3796 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3799 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3800 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3801 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3802 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3803 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3807 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3809 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3810 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3811 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3815 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3818 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3822 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3824 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3825 installing package files into.
3826 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3831 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3835 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3839 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3845 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3848 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3852 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3854 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3855 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3856 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3857 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3858 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3862 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3864 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3865 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3866 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3867 multiple binary packages.
3868 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3869 should rebuild them with this version.
3870 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3874 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3876 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3877 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3881 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3883 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3884 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3888 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3891 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3892 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3893 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3894 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3895 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3896 debian/README.debian.
3897 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3898 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3899 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3900 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3901 in a few situations.)
3903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3905 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3907 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3911 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3913 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3917 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3920 * Fixed several man pages.
3922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3924 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3926 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3927 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3928 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3932 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3934 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3935 is ready for general use.
3936 * Added man pages for all commands.
3937 * Multiple binary package support.
3938 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3939 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3940 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3942 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3943 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3944 auto-installed as parameters.
3945 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3947 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3950 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3951 the package build directory it is to act on.
3952 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3953 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3954 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3958 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3960 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3961 ready to replace debstd.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400