1 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
4 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
5 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
6 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
7 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
8 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
9 program those options go to. So, for example,
10 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
11 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
12 something complex. Closes: #89311
13 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
17 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
19 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
20 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
21 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
22 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
26 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
29 through loop. Closes: #98598
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
33 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
37 this (dh_* should be called, really).
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
41 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
43 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
44 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
45 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
46 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
50 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
53 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
54 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
58 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
60 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
61 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
65 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
67 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
68 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
69 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
71 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
73 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
75 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
76 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
77 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
78 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
82 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
85 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
86 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
87 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
91 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
94 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
98 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
100 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
104 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Typo, Closes: #92407
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
110 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
116 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
122 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
125 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
129 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
132 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
133 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
134 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
135 followed. Closes: #85483
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
139 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
141 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
142 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
143 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
147 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
150 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
151 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
152 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
153 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
154 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
155 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
156 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
157 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
158 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
159 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
160 Closes: #88464, #77743
161 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
162 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
163 us to deal with that gracefully.
164 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
166 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
167 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
168 a while, Closes: #51225
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
172 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
178 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
180 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
181 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
185 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
187 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
189 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
194 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
196 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
197 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
198 don't make packlist files.
199 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
200 debhelper coding standards.
201 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
202 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
206 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
209 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
213 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
216 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
217 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
218 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
219 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
220 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
221 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
222 but is mildly deprecated.
223 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
224 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
225 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
226 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
227 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
228 switching to statoverrides..
229 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
230 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
231 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
232 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
233 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
234 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
236 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
237 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
238 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
239 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
240 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
241 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
242 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
243 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
244 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
246 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
247 variable names, pod man pages).
248 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
249 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
250 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
251 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
252 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
253 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
254 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
258 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
264 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
271 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
273 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
274 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
278 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
280 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
281 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
282 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
286 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
288 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
289 they were previously ignored.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
293 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
295 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
296 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
300 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
302 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
303 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
304 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
308 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
310 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
314 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
316 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
317 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
321 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
323 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
324 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
325 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
326 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
327 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
328 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
329 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
330 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
331 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
332 it is an obsolete program.
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
336 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
338 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
342 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
346 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
348 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
350 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
352 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
354 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
356 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
358 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
362 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
368 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
370 * typo: Closes, #78567
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
374 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
380 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
386 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
388 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
389 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
390 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
391 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
392 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
393 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
397 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
400 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
405 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
408 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
409 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
410 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
411 backwards-compatability.
413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
415 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
417 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
418 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
419 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
420 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
421 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
422 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
423 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
425 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
426 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
427 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
429 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
431 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
432 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
433 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
434 should now be raised to severity important..
435 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
436 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
440 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
443 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
448 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Typo, Closes: #77441
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
454 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Completed the fix from the last version.
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
460 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
466 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
468 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
473 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
475 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
476 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
477 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
478 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
479 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
483 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
489 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
491 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
492 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
493 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
494 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
495 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
496 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
497 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
502 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
504 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
505 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
509 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
511 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
515 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
518 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
523 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
525 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
526 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
527 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
528 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
529 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
533 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
537 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
540 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
543 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
544 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
547 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
549 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
550 the TODO entry about it.
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
554 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
556 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
561 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
563 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
564 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
565 prevent that. Closes: #73052
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
569 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
571 * Typo, Closes: #72932
572 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
573 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
574 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
575 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
579 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
585 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
592 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
595 (this appears to be logal).
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
599 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
602 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
603 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
604 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
605 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
609 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
615 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
617 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
618 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
619 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
620 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
621 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
625 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
631 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
633 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
634 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
638 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
640 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
645 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
647 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
648 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
649 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
650 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
655 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
662 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
668 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
670 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
671 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
672 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
673 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
674 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
675 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
676 notice until v2 is complete.
677 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
678 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
679 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
680 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
681 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
682 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
684 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
685 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
686 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
687 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
691 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
693 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
697 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
699 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
704 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
706 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
707 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
711 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
713 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
718 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
721 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
722 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
723 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
724 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
729 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
731 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
732 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
733 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
734 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
739 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
742 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
743 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
747 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
750 just skip files that end in -\d+.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
754 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
756 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
757 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
761 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
768 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
770 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
771 depend on the build and install targets.
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
775 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
778 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
782 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
784 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
789 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
795 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
801 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
804 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
805 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
806 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
807 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
808 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
809 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
811 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
812 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
813 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
814 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
815 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
816 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
817 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
821 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
823 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
827 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
833 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
836 right place. Closes: #55065
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
840 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
847 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Make all examples rules files executable.
850 * Copyright date updates.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
854 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
857 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
862 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
868 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
875 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
881 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
887 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
893 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
896 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
897 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
898 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
899 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
900 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
901 bits until all files have been registered.
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
905 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_installmanpages:
908 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
909 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
910 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
911 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
912 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
913 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
914 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
915 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
916 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
917 otherwise change the result at all.
919 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
920 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
921 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
922 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
923 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
928 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
934 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
936 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
937 act on files that don't exist.
938 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
939 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
940 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
942 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
943 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
944 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
945 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
949 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
951 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
955 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
957 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
961 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
963 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
964 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
968 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
970 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
971 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
973 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
974 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
975 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
979 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
981 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
982 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
983 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
984 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
985 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
986 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
987 does not compress. Closes: #41733
988 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
990 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
992 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
996 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
998 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1003 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1005 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1009 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1011 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1015 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1017 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1018 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1022 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1028 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1030 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1034 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1037 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1038 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1039 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1040 I made some changes, though:
1041 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1042 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1043 that is a clear violation of policy.
1044 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1045 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1046 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1047 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1048 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1049 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1050 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1051 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1052 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1054 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1058 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1064 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1066 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1067 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1071 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1074 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1075 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1080 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1086 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1093 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1096 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1097 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1098 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1099 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1100 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1101 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1102 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1106 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1112 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1116 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1117 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1121 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1123 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1127 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1130 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1134 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1137 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1138 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1142 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1144 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1149 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1153 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1157 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1160 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1161 for the dependancies to be generated.
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1165 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1168 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1172 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1175 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1176 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1177 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1182 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1185 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1186 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1190 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1196 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1202 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1205 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1209 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1215 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1218 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1219 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1220 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1221 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1222 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1223 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1224 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1225 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1226 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1227 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1228 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1229 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1233 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1236 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1237 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1239 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1240 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1241 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1242 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1243 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1244 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1246 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1247 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1251 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1254 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1258 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1265 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1268 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1273 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1276 for building debhelper.
1277 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1281 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1288 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1291 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1295 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1298 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1299 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1300 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1301 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1302 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1303 it's always available.
1305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1307 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1309 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1310 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1311 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1312 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1316 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1319 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1320 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1324 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1330 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1333 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1337 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1343 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1346 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1347 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1348 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1352 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1354 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1355 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1360 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1363 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1364 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1366 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1367 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1371 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1377 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1383 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1385 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1386 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1390 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1393 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1394 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1396 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1400 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1403 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1404 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1405 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1409 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1412 things if CDPATH is set.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1416 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1422 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1425 seems to make sense for the transition.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1429 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1432 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1437 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1439 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1440 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1441 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1445 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1447 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1448 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1452 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1455 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1456 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1457 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1458 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1462 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1464 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1468 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1471 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1472 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1473 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1474 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1475 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1476 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1477 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1478 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1479 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1480 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1485 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1488 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1489 * README: mention doc/v2
1490 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1491 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1495 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1497 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1498 be using this script RSN.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1502 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1505 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1506 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1507 more than 1 init script.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1511 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1514 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1518 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Changed perl version detection.
1521 * Changed call to find.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1525 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1528 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1530 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1535 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Really include dh_installpam.
1539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1541 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1544 * Wrote man page for same.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1548 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1551 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1552 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1557 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1564 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1567 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1568 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1569 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1570 x bit was being set!
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1574 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1577 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1578 well. (Closes: 38900)
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1582 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1585 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1586 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1590 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1596 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1603 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1609 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1612 help from Julian Gilbey.
1613 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1614 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1615 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1616 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1617 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1618 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1619 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1624 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1630 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1637 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1643 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1645 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1649 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1652 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1656 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1659 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1663 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1666 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1670 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1676 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1679 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1683 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1689 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1695 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1698 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1699 may be deleted. (#35845)
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1703 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * Various man page enhancements.
1706 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1711 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1714 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1715 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1719 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1722 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1723 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1724 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1726 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1727 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1732 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1738 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Another very minor typo fix.
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1744 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Very minor typo fix.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1750 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1753 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1754 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1758 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1764 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1767 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1768 variables properly (#34850).
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1772 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1778 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1781 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1782 (automatically generated by build process).
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1786 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1788 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1792 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1795 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1796 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1798 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1802 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1805 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1809 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * README: minor typo fix.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1815 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1818 leave it at that. :-)
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1822 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1828 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1834 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1837 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1838 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1839 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1843 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1846 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1850 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1852 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1853 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1857 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1860 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1861 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1862 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1863 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1867 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1870 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1871 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1872 Craig Small for spotting this.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1876 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1879 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1880 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1884 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1890 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1893 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1897 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1899 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1900 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1901 working on the last version of debhelper.
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1905 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1908 being made. (#23255)
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1912 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1918 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1921 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1925 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1928 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1929 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1930 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1931 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1935 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1938 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1939 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1940 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1941 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1943 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1944 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1946 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1951 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1957 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1963 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1966 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1967 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1968 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1969 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1970 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1971 suidregister actually supports it.
1972 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1973 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1977 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1984 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1987 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1988 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1989 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1990 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1991 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1992 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1993 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1997 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1999 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2000 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2004 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2007 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2008 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2009 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2010 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2014 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2016 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2017 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2019 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2020 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2021 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2022 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2023 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2024 effect, either. (#30118)
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2028 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2034 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2037 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2038 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2042 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2048 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2051 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2052 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2053 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2054 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2058 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2061 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2062 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2066 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2072 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2075 packages, painlessly.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2079 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2085 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2091 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2097 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * The perl conversion is complete.
2101 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2103 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2104 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2105 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2110 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2113 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2114 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2115 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2119 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2122 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2124 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2126 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2127 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2131 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2134 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2135 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2139 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2145 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2148 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2149 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2150 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2151 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2152 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2156 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2158 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2159 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2160 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2161 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2162 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2166 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2169 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2173 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2176 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2177 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2178 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2179 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2180 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2181 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2182 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2183 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2187 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2193 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2195 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2196 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2197 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2198 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2203 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2206 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2210 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2213 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2217 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2220 sections of shared libraries.
2221 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2222 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2223 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2224 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2225 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2226 things you don't want them to.
2227 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2228 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2232 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2235 shared libraries. (#26414)
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2239 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2241 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2242 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2243 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2244 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2248 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2252 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2254 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2255 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2256 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2257 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2258 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2262 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2265 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2269 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2272 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2273 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2278 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2281 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2285 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2288 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2289 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2290 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2291 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2292 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2294 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2295 remove debian/files properly.
2296 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2297 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2298 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2299 * Removed bogus menu file.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2303 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2306 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2310 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2313 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2314 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2315 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2316 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2317 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2318 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2322 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2325 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2326 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2327 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2328 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2332 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2339 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2342 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2343 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2345 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2346 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2347 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2348 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2349 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2350 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2354 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2357 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2358 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2359 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2360 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2361 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2362 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2363 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2364 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2365 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2366 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2367 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2368 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2369 passed any switches.
2370 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2374 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2377 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2378 at all for a long while.
2379 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2380 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2381 large chunks in the process.
2382 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2383 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2384 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2389 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2392 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2394 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2399 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2402 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2403 that don't always have the same files in them.
2404 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2405 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2406 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2410 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2414 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2415 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2416 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2417 updating 27 man pages.
2418 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2419 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2420 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2421 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2422 programs act on. (#25247)
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2426 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2430 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2431 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2432 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2433 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2434 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2435 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2440 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2447 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2454 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2457 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2461 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2467 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2470 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2471 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2472 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2473 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2474 package by accident.
2475 * Is version 1.0 next?
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2479 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2482 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2483 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2487 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2490 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2491 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2492 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2493 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2494 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2496 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2501 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2504 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2505 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2509 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2511 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2512 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2516 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2519 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2520 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2525 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2531 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2534 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2535 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2540 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2546 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2548 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2549 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2550 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2551 past week. Thanks, guys!
2553 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2554 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2555 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2556 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2557 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2558 would do in the same situation.
2559 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2560 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2562 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2564 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2565 permissions changed.
2566 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2567 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2568 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2569 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2570 files are treated identically.
2571 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2572 * Minor man page fixes.
2573 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2574 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2575 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2579 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2582 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2583 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2584 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2585 use -X multiple times, too.
2586 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2587 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2591 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2594 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2595 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2599 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2602 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2606 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2609 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2610 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2611 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2612 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2613 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2614 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2615 shape if you're starting a new package.
2617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2619 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2621 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2622 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2626 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2628 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2629 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2630 because of missing symlinks.
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2634 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2640 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2643 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2644 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2645 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2646 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2647 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2649 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2650 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2654 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2656 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2657 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2658 to be changed after the fact :-)
2659 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2663 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2665 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2666 no version string after the -V.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2670 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2672 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2673 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2678 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2681 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2685 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2688 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2689 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2690 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2691 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2692 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2693 I always welcome corrections!
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2697 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2703 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2706 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2707 * Documented this new switch.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2711 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2714 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2715 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2716 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2717 no packages use the old behavior.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2721 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2724 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2725 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2729 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2731 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2732 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2736 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2742 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2745 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2749 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2752 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2753 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2754 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2758 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2764 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2766 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2767 into the source package by accident.
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2771 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2774 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2775 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2776 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2777 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2778 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2779 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2784 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2788 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2789 inspired to implement some of it.
2790 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2794 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2797 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2801 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2804 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2805 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2809 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2812 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2813 have done.) (#17598)
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2817 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2823 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2829 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2832 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2836 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2839 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2840 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2844 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2847 argument processor in perl.
2848 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2849 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2850 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2851 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2855 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2858 type directories. (#16933)
2859 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2860 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2861 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2862 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2863 are supported. (#16935)
2864 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2869 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2872 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2876 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2880 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2881 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2882 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2883 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2884 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2885 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2889 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2891 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2892 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2893 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2895 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2896 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2897 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2898 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2899 a given package, or -i or -a.
2900 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2901 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2902 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2903 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2904 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2905 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2906 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2907 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2908 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2910 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2911 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2912 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2916 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2918 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2919 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2920 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2925 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2928 does not have a section.
2930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2932 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2934 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2935 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2936 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2937 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2941 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Fixed typo #16215.
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2947 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2950 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2951 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2952 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2953 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2954 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2959 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2962 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2963 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2964 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2969 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2975 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2981 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2984 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2985 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2986 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2987 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2988 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2989 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2993 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2999 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3002 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3006 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3009 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3010 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3011 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3015 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3018 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3022 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3028 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3031 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3035 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3038 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3042 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3048 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3051 postinst, postrm, etc.
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3055 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3061 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3064 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3065 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3066 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3067 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3068 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3072 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3075 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3076 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3080 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3083 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3087 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3090 installing package files into.
3091 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3096 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3100 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3104 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3110 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3113 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3117 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3119 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3120 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3121 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3122 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3123 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3127 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3129 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3130 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3131 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3132 multiple binary packages.
3133 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3134 should rebuild them with this version.
3135 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3139 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3142 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3146 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3149 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3153 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3156 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3157 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3158 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3159 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3160 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3161 debian/README.debian.
3162 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3163 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3164 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3165 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3166 in a few situations.)
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3170 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3176 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3182 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3185 * Fixed several man pages.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3189 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3192 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3193 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3197 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3200 is ready for general use.
3201 * Added man pages for all commands.
3202 * Multiple binary package support.
3203 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3204 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3205 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3207 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3208 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3209 auto-installed as parameters.
3210 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3212 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3215 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3216 the package build directory it is to act on.
3217 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3218 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3219 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3223 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3225 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3226 ready to replace debstd.
3228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400