1 debhelper (4.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installinit: Added --error-handler option. Based on work by Thom May.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jun 2004 19:49:15 -0400
8 debhelper (4.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
11 * dh_fixperms: fix permissions of .h files. Closes: #252492
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
15 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
18 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
22 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
25 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
27 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
29 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
31 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
32 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
36 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
38 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
42 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
46 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
48 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
50 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
54 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
57 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
58 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
59 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
63 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
66 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
70 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
72 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
73 but occasionally right and necessary.
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
77 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
80 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
81 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
82 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
83 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
84 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937a
86 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
88 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
91 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
93 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
94 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
95 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
96 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
97 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
98 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
99 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
100 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
101 postinst scripts for udebs.
102 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
106 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
109 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
111 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
112 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
116 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
122 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
124 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
129 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
131 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
136 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
139 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
143 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
146 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
150 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
153 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
156 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
157 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
161 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
167 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
170 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
174 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
177 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
178 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
179 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
181 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
183 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
184 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
185 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
189 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
191 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
192 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
197 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
199 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
200 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
201 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
202 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
207 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
209 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
213 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
219 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
221 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
222 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
223 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
224 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
225 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
226 associated -dbg packages.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
230 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
233 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
237 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
240 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
244 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
246 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
247 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
251 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
254 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
259 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Typo. Closes: #207999
262 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
266 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
269 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
274 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
276 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
277 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
281 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
285 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
286 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
287 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
288 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
289 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
290 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
291 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
292 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
293 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
294 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
298 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
301 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
306 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
308 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
309 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
310 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
314 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
317 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
318 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
323 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
326 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
330 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
332 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
333 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
337 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
340 out section number. Closes: #204731
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
344 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
346 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
351 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
357 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
363 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
365 * Typo, Closes: #203907
366 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
367 removal. Closes: #204286
369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
371 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
373 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
374 renaming. Closes: #203548
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
378 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
381 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
382 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
386 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
392 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
398 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
404 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
407 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
408 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
409 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
413 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
416 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
417 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
421 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
423 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
427 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
429 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
434 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
437 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
442 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
444 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
445 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
449 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
451 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
452 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
454 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
455 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
459 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
461 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
462 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
467 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
469 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
470 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
474 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
476 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
480 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
482 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
486 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
489 it break hard links (see #188663).
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
493 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
495 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
496 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
500 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
506 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
510 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
511 debconf-mergetemplates
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
515 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
517 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
518 pod2man. Closes: #184013
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
522 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
525 * Typo, Closes: #183267
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
529 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
532 * Update debhelper(1).
534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
536 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
538 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
539 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
540 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
541 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
542 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
543 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
547 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
549 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
550 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
551 the shell. Closes: #178524
552 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
556 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
559 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
563 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
566 undocumented.7 links anymore.
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
570 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
572 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
573 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
574 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
575 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
576 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
581 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
584 files from installation.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
588 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
590 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
591 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
592 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
596 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
598 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
599 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
603 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
606 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
610 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
612 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
616 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
622 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
626 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
627 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
629 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
633 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
635 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
636 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
637 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
638 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
639 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
643 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
645 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
646 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
650 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
653 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
654 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
658 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
662 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
667 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
669 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
673 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
675 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
677 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
678 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
679 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
684 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
687 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
688 practice. Closes: #163303
690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
692 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
694 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
698 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
705 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
707 * The "reverse hangover" release.
708 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
710 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
711 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
712 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
713 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
714 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
718 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
721 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
726 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
732 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
739 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
741 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
742 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
747 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
749 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
753 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
759 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
765 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
772 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
774 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
775 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
776 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
777 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
778 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
783 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
785 * Typo, Closes: #155323
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
789 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
796 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
799 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
800 * Removed dh_installxaw.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
804 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
806 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
807 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
808 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
809 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
810 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
811 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
815 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
818 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
820 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
825 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
827 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
828 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
832 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
835 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
836 right thing. Closes: #150644
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
840 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
847 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
849 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
854 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
857 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
858 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
863 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
865 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
869 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
871 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
872 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
876 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
878 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
879 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
880 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
885 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
888 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
892 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
898 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
900 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
901 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
902 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
906 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
912 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
914 * Removing perl warning message.
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
918 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
920 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
921 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
922 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
923 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
924 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
925 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
926 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
927 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
928 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
932 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
934 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
938 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
945 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
948 debconf-mergetemplate.
949 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
950 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
954 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
956 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
957 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
958 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
959 dh_install, which ...
960 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
961 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
962 mess, as it uses debian/install.
963 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
964 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
965 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
966 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
967 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
968 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
969 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
970 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
971 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
972 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
973 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
975 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
976 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
977 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
978 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
979 course there's -X ..)
980 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
981 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
982 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
984 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
985 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
986 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
987 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
988 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
993 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
995 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
999 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Typo, Closes: #139176
1002 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
1004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
1006 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1008 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1012 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1018 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1024 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1030 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1033 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1034 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1035 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1036 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1038 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1039 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1043 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1045 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1049 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1052 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1056 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1059 upset. Closes: #131322
1061 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1063 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1066 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1067 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1068 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1069 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1070 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1071 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1072 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1073 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1074 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1075 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1076 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1077 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1078 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1079 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1080 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1082 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1086 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1089 - Better indenting of generated code.
1090 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1094 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1098 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1099 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1100 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1101 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1102 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1103 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1104 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1108 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1111 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1115 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1118 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1119 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1120 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1121 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1122 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1123 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1124 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1125 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1126 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1127 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1128 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1129 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1130 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1131 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1132 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1137 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1143 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1146 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1147 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1151 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1154 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1155 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1159 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1165 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1168 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1169 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1170 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1171 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1172 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1177 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1183 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1186 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1190 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1193 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1198 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1200 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1204 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1207 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1211 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1217 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1221 Also some indentation fixes.
1223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1225 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1227 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1228 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1229 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1230 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1231 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1232 Closes: #106514, #85520
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1236 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1242 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1248 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1254 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1260 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1266 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1269 change it in debhelper v4..
1271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1273 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1275 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1279 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1282 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1286 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1289 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1293 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1295 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1299 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1301 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1302 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1303 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1304 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1305 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1306 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1307 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1308 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1309 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1310 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1311 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1312 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1313 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1317 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1320 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1324 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1331 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1334 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1335 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1336 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1337 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1338 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1339 program those options go to. So, for example,
1340 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1341 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1342 something complex. Closes: #89311
1343 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1347 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1350 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1351 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1352 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1356 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1358 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1359 through loop. Closes: #98598
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1363 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * Missing semi-colon.
1366 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1367 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1371 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1374 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1375 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1376 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1380 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1383 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1384 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1388 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1391 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1395 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1398 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1399 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1403 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1405 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1406 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1407 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1408 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1412 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1415 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1416 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1417 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1421 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1424 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1428 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1434 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1440 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1446 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1452 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1455 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1459 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1461 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1462 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1463 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1464 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1465 followed. Closes: #85483
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1469 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1471 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1472 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1473 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1477 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1480 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1481 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1482 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1483 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1484 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1485 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1486 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1487 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1488 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1489 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1490 Closes: #88464, #77743
1491 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1492 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1493 us to deal with that gracefully.
1494 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1496 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1497 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1498 a while, Closes: #51225
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1502 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1508 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1511 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1515 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1519 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1524 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1527 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1528 don't make packlist files.
1529 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1530 debhelper coding standards.
1531 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1532 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1536 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1538 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1539 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1543 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1545 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1546 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1547 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1548 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1549 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1550 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1551 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1552 but is mildly deprecated.
1553 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1554 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1555 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1556 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1557 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1558 switching to statoverrides..
1559 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1560 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1561 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1562 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1563 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1564 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1566 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1567 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1568 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1569 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1570 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1571 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1572 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1573 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1574 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1576 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1577 variable names, pod man pages).
1578 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1579 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1580 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1581 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1582 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1583 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1584 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1588 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1594 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1601 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1604 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1608 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1610 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1611 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1612 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1616 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1618 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1619 they were previously ignored.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1623 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1625 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1626 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1630 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1632 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1633 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1634 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1638 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1640 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1644 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1646 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1647 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1651 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1653 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1654 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1655 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1656 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1657 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1658 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1659 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1660 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1661 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1662 it is an obsolete program.
1664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1666 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1668 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1672 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1676 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1678 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1682 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1684 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1686 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1688 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1692 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1698 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * typo: Closes, #78567
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1704 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1710 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1716 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1719 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1720 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1721 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1722 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1723 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1727 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1730 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1735 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1738 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1739 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1740 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1741 backwards-compatability.
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1745 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1748 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1749 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1750 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1751 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1752 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1753 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1755 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1756 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1757 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1759 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1761 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1762 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1763 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1764 should now be raised to severity important..
1765 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1766 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1770 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1773 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1778 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1780 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1784 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1790 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1796 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1803 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1806 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1807 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1808 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1809 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1813 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1819 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1822 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1823 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1824 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1825 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1826 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1827 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1832 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1835 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1839 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1845 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1848 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1853 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1856 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1857 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1858 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1859 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1863 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1867 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1870 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1873 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1874 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1877 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1879 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1880 the TODO entry about it.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1884 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1891 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1894 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1895 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1899 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1902 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1903 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1904 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1905 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1909 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1915 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1922 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1925 (this appears to be logal).
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1929 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1932 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1933 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1934 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1935 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1939 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1945 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1948 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1949 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1950 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1951 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1955 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1961 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1964 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1968 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1975 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1978 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1979 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1980 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1985 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1992 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1994 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1998 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
2001 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
2002 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
2003 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
2004 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
2005 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
2006 notice until v2 is complete.
2007 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2008 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2009 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2010 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2011 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2012 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2014 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2015 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2016 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2017 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2021 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2027 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2034 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2037 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2041 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2043 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2048 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2051 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2052 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2053 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2054 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2059 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2062 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2063 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2064 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2069 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2072 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2073 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2077 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2080 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2084 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2087 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2091 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2098 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2101 depend on the build and install targets.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2105 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2108 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2112 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2119 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2125 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2127 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2131 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2134 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2135 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2136 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2137 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2138 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2139 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2141 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2142 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2143 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2144 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2145 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2146 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2147 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2151 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2157 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2163 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2166 right place. Closes: #55065
2168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2170 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2172 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2177 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2180 * Copyright date updates.
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2184 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2187 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2192 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2194 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2198 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2205 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2211 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2217 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2219 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2223 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2226 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2227 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2228 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2229 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2230 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2231 bits until all files have been registered.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2235 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_installmanpages:
2238 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2239 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2240 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2241 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2242 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2243 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2244 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2245 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2246 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2247 otherwise change the result at all.
2249 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2250 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2251 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2252 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2253 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2258 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2264 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2267 act on files that don't exist.
2268 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2269 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2270 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2272 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2273 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2274 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2275 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2279 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2281 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2285 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2291 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2294 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2298 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2301 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2303 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2304 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2305 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2309 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2312 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2313 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2314 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2315 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2316 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2317 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2318 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2320 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2322 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2326 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2333 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2339 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2341 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2345 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2347 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2348 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2352 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2358 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2364 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2366 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2367 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2368 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2369 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2370 I made some changes, though:
2371 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2372 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2373 that is a clear violation of policy.
2374 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2375 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2376 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2377 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2378 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2379 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2380 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2381 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2382 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2384 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2388 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2394 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2397 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2401 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2404 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2405 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2410 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2416 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2423 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2426 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2427 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2428 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2429 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2430 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2431 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2432 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2436 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2442 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2446 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2447 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2451 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2457 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2460 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2464 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2467 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2468 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2472 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2474 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2479 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2483 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2487 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2490 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2491 for the dependancies to be generated.
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2495 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2498 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2502 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2505 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2506 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2507 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2512 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2515 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2516 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2520 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2526 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2532 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2535 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2539 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2545 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2548 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2549 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2550 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2551 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2552 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2553 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2554 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2555 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2556 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2557 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2558 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2559 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2563 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2566 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2567 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2569 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2570 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2571 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2572 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2573 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2574 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2576 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2577 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2581 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2584 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2588 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2590 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2595 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2598 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2603 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2606 for building debhelper.
2607 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2611 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2618 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2621 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2625 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2628 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2629 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2630 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2631 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2632 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2633 it's always available.
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2637 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2640 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2641 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2642 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2646 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2649 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2650 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2654 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2656 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2660 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2662 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2663 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2667 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2673 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2676 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2677 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2678 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2682 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2685 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2690 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2693 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2694 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2696 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2697 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2701 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2703 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2707 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2713 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2716 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2720 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2723 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2724 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2726 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2730 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2733 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2734 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2735 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2739 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2742 things if CDPATH is set.
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2746 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2752 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2755 seems to make sense for the transition.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2759 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2762 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2767 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2770 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2771 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2775 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2777 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2778 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2782 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2785 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2786 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2787 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2788 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2792 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2794 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2798 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2800 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2801 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2802 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2803 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2804 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2805 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2806 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2807 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2808 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2809 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2810 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2815 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2818 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2819 * README: mention doc/v2
2820 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2821 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2825 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2827 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2828 be using this script RSN.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2832 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2835 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2836 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2837 more than 1 init script.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2841 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2844 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2848 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Changed perl version detection.
2851 * Changed call to find.
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2855 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2858 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2860 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2865 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2867 * Really include dh_installpam.
2869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2871 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2873 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2874 * Wrote man page for same.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2878 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2881 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2882 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2887 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2894 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2896 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2897 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2898 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2899 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2900 x bit was being set!
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2904 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2907 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2908 well. (Closes: 38900)
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2912 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2915 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2916 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2920 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2926 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2933 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2939 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2942 help from Julian Gilbey.
2943 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2944 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2945 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2946 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2947 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2948 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2949 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2954 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2956 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2960 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2967 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2973 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2975 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2979 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2982 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2986 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2989 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2993 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2996 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
3000 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
3006 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3009 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3013 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3019 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3021 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3025 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3028 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3029 may be deleted. (#35845)
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3033 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * Various man page enhancements.
3036 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3041 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3044 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3045 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3049 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3052 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3053 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3054 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3056 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3057 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3062 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3064 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3068 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * Another very minor typo fix.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3074 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Very minor typo fix.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3080 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3083 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3084 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3088 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3094 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3097 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3098 variables properly (#34850).
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3102 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3108 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3111 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3112 (automatically generated by build process).
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3116 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3118 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3122 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3125 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3126 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3128 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3132 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3135 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3139 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * README: minor typo fix.
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3145 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3148 leave it at that. :-)
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3152 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3158 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3164 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3167 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3168 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3169 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3173 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3175 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3176 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3180 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3182 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3183 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3187 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3190 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3191 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3192 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3193 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3197 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3200 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3201 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3202 Craig Small for spotting this.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3206 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3209 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3210 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3214 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3216 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3220 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3223 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3227 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3229 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3230 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3231 working on the last version of debhelper.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3235 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3238 being made. (#23255)
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3242 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3248 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3251 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3255 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3257 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3258 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3259 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3260 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3261 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3265 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3268 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3269 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3270 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3271 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3273 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3274 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3276 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3281 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3287 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3289 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3293 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3296 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3297 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3298 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3299 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3300 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3301 suidregister actually supports it.
3302 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3303 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3307 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3314 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3316 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3317 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3318 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3319 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3320 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3321 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3322 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3323 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3327 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3329 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3330 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3334 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3336 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3337 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3338 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3339 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3340 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3344 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3347 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3349 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3350 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3351 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3352 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3353 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3354 effect, either. (#30118)
3356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3358 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3360 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3364 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3367 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3368 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3372 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3378 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3380 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3381 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3382 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3383 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3384 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3388 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3391 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3392 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3396 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3402 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3404 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3405 packages, painlessly.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3409 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3415 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3421 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3427 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * The perl conversion is complete.
3431 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3433 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3434 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3435 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3440 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3443 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3444 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3445 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3449 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3452 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3454 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3456 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3457 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3461 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3464 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3465 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3469 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3471 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3475 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3478 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3479 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3480 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3481 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3482 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3486 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3488 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3489 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3490 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3491 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3492 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3496 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3499 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3503 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3506 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3507 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3508 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3509 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3510 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3511 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3512 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3513 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3517 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3523 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3526 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3527 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3528 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3533 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3535 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3536 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3540 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3543 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3547 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3550 sections of shared libraries.
3551 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3552 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3553 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3554 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3555 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3556 things you don't want them to.
3557 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3558 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3562 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3564 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3565 shared libraries. (#26414)
3567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3569 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3571 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3572 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3573 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3574 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3578 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3582 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3584 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3585 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3586 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3587 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3588 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3592 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3595 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3599 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3601 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3602 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3603 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3608 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3610 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3611 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3615 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3617 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3618 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3619 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3620 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3621 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3622 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3624 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3625 remove debian/files properly.
3626 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3627 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3628 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3629 * Removed bogus menu file.
3631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3633 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3635 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3636 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3640 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3642 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3643 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3644 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3645 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3646 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3647 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3648 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3652 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3655 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3656 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3657 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3658 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3662 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3664 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3669 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3672 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3673 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3675 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3676 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3677 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3678 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3679 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3680 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3684 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3686 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3687 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3688 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3689 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3690 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3691 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3692 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3693 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3694 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3695 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3696 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3697 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3698 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3699 passed any switches.
3700 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3704 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3707 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3708 at all for a long while.
3709 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3710 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3711 large chunks in the process.
3712 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3713 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3714 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3719 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3722 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3724 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3729 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3732 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3733 that don't always have the same files in them.
3734 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3735 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3736 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3740 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3744 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3745 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3746 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3747 updating 27 man pages.
3748 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3749 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3750 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3751 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3752 programs act on. (#25247)
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3756 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3760 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3761 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3762 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3763 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3764 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3765 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3770 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3772 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3777 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3779 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3784 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3786 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3787 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3791 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3797 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3800 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3801 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3802 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3803 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3804 package by accident.
3805 * Is version 1.0 next?
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3809 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3812 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3813 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3817 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3820 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3821 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3822 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3823 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3824 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3826 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3831 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3834 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3835 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3839 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3842 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3846 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3848 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3849 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3850 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3855 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3857 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3861 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3863 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3864 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3865 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3870 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3876 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3879 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3880 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3881 past week. Thanks, guys!
3883 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3884 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3885 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3886 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3887 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3888 would do in the same situation.
3889 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3890 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3892 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3894 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3895 permissions changed.
3896 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3897 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3898 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3899 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3900 files are treated identically.
3901 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3902 * Minor man page fixes.
3903 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3904 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3905 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3909 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3912 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3913 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3914 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3915 use -X multiple times, too.
3916 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3917 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3921 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3924 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3925 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3929 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3931 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3932 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3936 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3939 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3940 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3941 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3942 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3943 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3944 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3945 shape if you're starting a new package.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3949 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3952 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3956 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3959 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3960 because of missing symlinks.
3962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3964 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3966 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3970 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3973 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3974 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3975 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3976 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3977 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3979 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3980 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3984 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3986 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3987 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3988 to be changed after the fact :-)
3989 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3993 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3995 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3996 no version string after the -V.
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
4000 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
4002 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
4003 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4008 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4011 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4015 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4017 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4018 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4019 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4020 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4021 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4022 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4023 I always welcome corrections!
4025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4027 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4029 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4033 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4036 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4037 * Documented this new switch.
4039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4041 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4043 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4044 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4045 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4046 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4047 no packages use the old behavior.
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4051 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4054 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4055 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4059 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4062 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4066 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4072 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4074 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4075 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4079 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4081 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4082 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4083 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4084 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4088 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4094 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4097 into the source package by accident.
4099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4101 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4103 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4104 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4105 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4106 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4107 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4108 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4109 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4114 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4116 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4118 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4119 inspired to implement some of it.
4120 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4124 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4127 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4131 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4134 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4135 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4139 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4142 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4143 have done.) (#17598)
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4147 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4153 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4159 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4161 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4162 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4166 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4169 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4170 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4174 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4176 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4177 argument processor in perl.
4178 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4179 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4180 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4181 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4185 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4187 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4188 type directories. (#16933)
4189 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4190 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4191 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4192 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4193 are supported. (#16935)
4194 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4199 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4201 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4202 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4206 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4208 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4210 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4211 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4212 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4213 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4214 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4215 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4219 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4221 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4222 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4223 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4225 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4226 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4227 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4228 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4229 a given package, or -i or -a.
4230 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4231 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4232 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4233 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4234 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4235 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4236 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4237 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4238 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4240 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4241 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4242 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4246 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4248 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4249 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4250 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4255 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4257 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4258 does not have a section.
4260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4262 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4264 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4265 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4266 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4267 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4271 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * Fixed typo #16215.
4275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4277 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4279 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4280 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4281 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4282 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4283 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4284 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4289 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4291 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4292 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4293 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4294 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4299 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4301 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4305 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4307 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4311 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4313 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4314 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4315 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4316 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4317 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4318 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4319 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4323 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4325 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4329 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4331 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4332 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4336 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4338 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4339 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4340 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4341 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4345 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4347 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4348 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4352 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4354 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4358 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4360 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4361 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4365 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4367 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4368 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4372 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4374 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4378 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4380 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4381 postinst, postrm, etc.
4383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4385 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4387 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4391 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4393 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4394 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4395 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4396 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4397 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4398 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4402 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4405 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4406 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4410 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4412 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4413 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4417 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4419 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4420 installing package files into.
4421 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4426 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4430 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4434 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4436 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4440 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4442 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4443 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4447 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4449 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4450 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4451 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4452 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4453 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4457 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4459 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4460 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4461 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4462 multiple binary packages.
4463 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4464 should rebuild them with this version.
4465 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4469 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4471 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4472 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4476 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4478 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4479 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4483 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4485 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4486 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4487 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4488 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4489 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4490 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4491 debian/README.debian.
4492 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4493 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4494 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4495 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4496 in a few situations.)
4498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4500 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4502 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4506 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4508 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4512 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4514 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4515 * Fixed several man pages.
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4519 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4522 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4523 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4527 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4529 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4530 is ready for general use.
4531 * Added man pages for all commands.
4532 * Multiple binary package support.
4533 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4534 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4535 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4537 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4538 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4539 auto-installed as parameters.
4540 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4542 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4545 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4546 the package build directory it is to act on.
4547 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4548 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4549 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4553 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4555 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4556 ready to replace debstd.
4558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400