1 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
7 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
10 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
14 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
17 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
18 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
23 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
25 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
26 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
30 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
36 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
39 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
40 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
44 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
50 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Removing perl warning message.
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
56 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
59 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
60 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
61 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
62 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
63 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
64 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
65 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
66 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
70 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
76 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
78 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
83 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
86 debconf-mergetemplate.
87 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
88 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
92 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
95 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
96 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
98 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
99 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
100 mess, as it uses debian/install.
101 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
102 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
103 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
104 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
105 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
106 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
107 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
108 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
109 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
110 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
111 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
113 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
114 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
115 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
116 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
117 course there's -X ..)
118 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
119 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
120 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
122 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
123 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
124 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
125 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
126 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
131 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
133 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
137 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Typo, Closes: #139176
140 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
144 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
150 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
156 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
158 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
162 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
168 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
171 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
172 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
173 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
174 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
176 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
177 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
181 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
187 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Typo, Closes: #132454
190 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
194 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
197 upset. Closes: #131322
199 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
201 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
203 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
204 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
205 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
206 line, as well as in debian/rules.
207 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
208 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
209 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
210 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
211 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
212 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
213 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
214 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
215 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
216 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
217 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
218 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
220 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
224 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
227 - Better indenting of generated code.
228 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
232 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
236 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
237 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
238 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
239 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
240 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
241 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
242 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
246 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
249 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
253 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
255 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
256 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
257 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
258 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
259 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
260 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
261 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
262 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
263 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
264 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
265 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
266 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
267 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
268 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
269 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
270 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
275 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
277 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
281 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
284 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
285 * fixed dh_testdir man page
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
289 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
291 * Typo, Closes: #122679
292 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
293 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
297 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
303 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
306 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
307 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
308 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
309 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
310 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
315 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
317 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
321 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
324 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
328 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
330 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
331 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
336 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Typo, Closes: #114135
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
342 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
345 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
349 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
355 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
359 Also some indentation fixes.
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
363 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
366 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
367 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
368 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
369 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
370 Closes: #106514, #85520
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
374 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Typo, Closes: #104405
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
380 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
382 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
386 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
388 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
392 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
394 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
398 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
404 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
407 change it in debhelper v4..
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
411 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
417 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
420 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
424 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
426 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
427 is not essential. Closes: #100430
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
431 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
433 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
437 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
439 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
440 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
441 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
442 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
443 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
444 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
445 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
446 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
447 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
448 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
449 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
450 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
451 prefixed with ".debhelper")
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
455 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
457 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
458 look just like shared libs, but are not.
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
462 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
464 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
469 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
471 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
472 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
473 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
474 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
475 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
476 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
477 program those options go to. So, for example,
478 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
479 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
480 something complex. Closes: #89311
481 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
485 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
488 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
489 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
490 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
494 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
497 through loop. Closes: #98598
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
501 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Missing semi-colon.
504 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
505 this (dh_* should be called, really).
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
509 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
511 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
512 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
513 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
514 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
518 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
520 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
521 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
522 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
526 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
528 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
529 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
533 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
536 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
537 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
541 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
544 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
545 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
546 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
550 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
552 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
553 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
554 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
555 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
559 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
561 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
562 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
566 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
572 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Typo, Closes: #92407
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
578 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
584 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
586 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
590 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
592 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
593 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
597 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
599 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
600 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
601 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
602 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
603 followed. Closes: #85483
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
607 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
609 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
610 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
611 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
615 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
618 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
619 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
620 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
621 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
622 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
623 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
624 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
625 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
626 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
627 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
628 Closes: #88464, #77743
629 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
630 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
631 us to deal with that gracefully.
632 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
634 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
635 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
636 a while, Closes: #51225
638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
640 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
646 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
648 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
649 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
653 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
655 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
657 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
662 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
664 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
665 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
666 don't make packlist files.
667 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
668 debhelper coding standards.
669 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
670 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
674 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
676 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
677 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
681 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
684 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
685 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
686 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
687 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
688 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
689 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
690 but is mildly deprecated.
691 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
692 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
693 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
694 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
695 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
696 switching to statoverrides..
697 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
698 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
699 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
700 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
701 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
702 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
704 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
705 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
706 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
707 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
708 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
709 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
710 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
711 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
712 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
714 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
715 variable names, pod man pages).
716 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
717 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
718 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
719 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
720 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
721 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
722 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
726 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
732 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
739 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
742 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
746 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
748 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
749 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
750 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
754 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
756 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
757 they were previously ignored.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
761 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
763 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
764 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
768 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
770 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
771 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
772 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
776 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
778 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
782 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
784 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
785 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
789 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
791 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
792 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
793 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
794 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
795 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
796 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
797 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
798 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
799 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
800 it is an obsolete program.
802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
804 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
806 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
810 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
814 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
816 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
818 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
820 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
822 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
824 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
826 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
830 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
836 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
838 * typo: Closes, #78567
840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
842 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
844 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
848 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
854 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
856 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
857 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
858 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
859 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
860 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
861 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
865 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
867 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
868 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
873 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
876 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
877 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
878 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
879 backwards-compatability.
881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
883 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
885 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
886 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
887 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
888 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
889 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
890 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
891 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
893 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
894 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
895 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
897 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
899 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
900 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
901 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
902 should now be raised to severity important..
903 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
904 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
908 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
911 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
916 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Typo, Closes: #77441
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
922 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Completed the fix from the last version.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
928 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
934 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
936 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
941 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
943 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
944 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
945 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
946 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
947 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
951 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
953 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
957 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
960 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
961 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
962 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
963 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
964 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
965 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
970 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
973 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
977 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
983 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
986 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
991 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
993 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
994 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
995 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
996 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
997 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1001 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1005 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1008 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1011 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1012 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1015 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1017 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1018 the TODO entry about it.
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1022 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1029 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1031 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1032 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1033 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1037 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1040 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1041 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1042 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1043 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1047 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1049 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1053 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1060 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1063 (this appears to be logal).
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1067 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1070 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1071 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1072 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1073 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1077 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1083 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1086 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1087 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1088 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1089 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1093 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1095 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1099 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1102 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1106 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1113 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1116 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1117 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1118 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1123 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1130 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1136 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1139 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1140 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1141 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1142 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1143 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1144 notice until v2 is complete.
1145 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1146 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1147 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1148 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1149 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1150 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1152 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1153 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1154 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1155 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1159 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1165 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1167 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1172 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1175 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1179 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1186 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1189 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1190 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1191 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1192 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1197 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1200 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1201 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1202 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1207 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1210 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1211 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1215 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1217 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1218 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1222 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1225 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1229 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1236 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1238 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1239 depend on the build and install targets.
1241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1243 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1245 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1246 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1250 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1257 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1263 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1269 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1272 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1273 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1274 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1275 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1276 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1277 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1279 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1280 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1281 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1282 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1283 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1284 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1285 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1289 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1295 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1301 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1303 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1304 right place. Closes: #55065
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1308 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1310 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1315 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1318 * Copyright date updates.
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1322 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1325 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1330 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1336 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1343 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1349 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1355 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1361 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1364 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1365 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1366 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1367 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1368 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1369 bits until all files have been registered.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1373 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_installmanpages:
1376 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1377 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1378 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1379 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1380 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1381 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1382 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1383 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1384 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1385 otherwise change the result at all.
1387 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1388 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1389 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1390 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1391 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1396 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1398 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1402 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1405 act on files that don't exist.
1406 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1407 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1408 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1410 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1411 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1412 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1413 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1417 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1419 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1423 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1429 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1432 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1436 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1439 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1441 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1442 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1443 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1447 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1449 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1450 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1451 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1452 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1453 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1454 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1455 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1456 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1458 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1460 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1464 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1471 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1473 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1477 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1483 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1486 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1490 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1496 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1502 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1505 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1506 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1507 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1508 I made some changes, though:
1509 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1510 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1511 that is a clear violation of policy.
1512 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1513 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1514 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1515 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1516 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1517 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1518 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1519 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1520 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1522 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1526 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1532 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1535 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1539 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1542 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1543 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1548 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1554 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1561 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1564 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1565 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1566 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1567 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1568 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1569 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1570 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1574 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1580 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1584 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1585 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1589 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1595 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1598 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1602 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1605 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1606 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1610 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1612 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1617 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1621 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1625 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1628 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1629 for the dependancies to be generated.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1633 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1636 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1640 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1643 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1644 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1645 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1650 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1653 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1654 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1658 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1664 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1670 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1673 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1677 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1679 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1683 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1685 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1686 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1687 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1688 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1689 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1690 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1691 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1692 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1693 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1694 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1695 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1696 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1697 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1701 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1704 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1705 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1707 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1708 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1709 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1710 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1711 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1712 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1714 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1715 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1719 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1722 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1726 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1733 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1736 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1741 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1744 for building debhelper.
1745 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1749 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1756 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1759 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1763 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1766 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1767 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1768 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1769 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1770 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1771 it's always available.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1775 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1778 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1779 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1780 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1784 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1787 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1788 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1792 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1798 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1801 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1805 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1811 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1814 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1815 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1816 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1820 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1823 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1828 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1831 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1832 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1834 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1835 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1839 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1845 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1851 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1854 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1858 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1861 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1862 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1864 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1868 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1870 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1871 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1872 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1873 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1877 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1880 things if CDPATH is set.
1882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1884 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1886 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1890 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1892 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1893 seems to make sense for the transition.
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1897 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1900 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1905 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1908 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1909 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1913 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1916 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1920 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1923 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1924 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1925 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1926 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1930 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1936 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1939 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1940 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1941 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1942 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1943 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1944 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1945 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1946 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1947 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1948 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1953 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1956 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1957 * README: mention doc/v2
1958 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1959 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1963 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1965 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1966 be using this script RSN.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1970 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1973 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1974 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1975 more than 1 init script.
1977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1979 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1981 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1982 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1986 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * Changed perl version detection.
1989 * Changed call to find.
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1993 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1996 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1998 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2003 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Really include dh_installpam.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2009 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2012 * Wrote man page for same.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2016 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2019 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2020 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2025 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2032 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2035 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2036 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2037 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2038 x bit was being set!
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2042 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2045 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2046 well. (Closes: 38900)
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2050 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2053 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2054 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2058 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2064 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2066 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2071 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2077 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2080 help from Julian Gilbey.
2081 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2082 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2083 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2084 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2085 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2086 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2087 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2092 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2094 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2098 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2100 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2105 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2111 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2117 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2120 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2124 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2127 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2131 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2134 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2138 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2144 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2147 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2151 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2157 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2163 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2165 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2166 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2167 may be deleted. (#35845)
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2171 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Various man page enhancements.
2174 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2179 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2181 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2182 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2183 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2187 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2189 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2190 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2191 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2192 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2194 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2195 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2200 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2206 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * Another very minor typo fix.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2212 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Very minor typo fix.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2218 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2221 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2222 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2226 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2232 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2235 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2236 variables properly (#34850).
2238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2240 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2246 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2249 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2250 (automatically generated by build process).
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2254 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2256 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2260 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2262 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2263 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2264 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2266 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2270 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2273 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2277 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * README: minor typo fix.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2283 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2286 leave it at that. :-)
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2290 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2296 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2302 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2305 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2306 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2307 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2311 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2314 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2318 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2321 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2325 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2328 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2329 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2330 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2331 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2335 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2338 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2339 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2340 Craig Small for spotting this.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2344 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2347 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2348 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2352 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2354 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2358 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2360 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2361 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2365 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2367 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2368 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2369 working on the last version of debhelper.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2373 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2376 being made. (#23255)
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2380 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2386 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2389 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2393 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2396 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2397 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2398 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2399 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2403 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2406 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2407 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2408 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2409 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2411 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2412 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2414 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2419 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2421 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2425 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2431 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2434 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2435 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2436 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2437 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2438 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2439 suidregister actually supports it.
2440 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2441 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2445 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2447 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2452 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2455 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2456 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2457 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2458 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2459 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2460 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2461 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2465 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2467 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2468 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2472 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2475 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2476 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2477 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2478 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2482 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2484 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2485 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2487 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2488 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2489 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2490 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2491 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2492 effect, either. (#30118)
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2496 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2502 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2504 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2505 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2506 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2510 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2516 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2519 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2520 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2521 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2522 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2526 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2529 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2530 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2534 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2540 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2543 packages, painlessly.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2547 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2553 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2559 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2565 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * The perl conversion is complete.
2569 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2571 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2572 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2573 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2578 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2581 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2582 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2583 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2587 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2590 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2592 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2594 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2595 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2599 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2601 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2602 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2603 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2607 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2613 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2615 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2616 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2617 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2618 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2619 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2620 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2624 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2627 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2628 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2629 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2630 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2634 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2637 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2641 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2643 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2644 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2645 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2646 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2647 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2648 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2649 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2650 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2651 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2655 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2661 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2664 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2665 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2666 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2671 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2674 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2678 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2681 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2685 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2687 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2688 sections of shared libraries.
2689 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2690 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2691 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2692 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2693 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2694 things you don't want them to.
2695 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2696 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2700 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2703 shared libraries. (#26414)
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2707 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2709 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2710 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2711 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2712 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2716 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2720 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2722 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2723 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2724 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2725 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2726 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2730 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2733 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2737 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2740 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2741 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2746 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2749 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2753 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2755 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2756 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2757 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2758 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2759 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2760 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2762 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2763 remove debian/files properly.
2764 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2765 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2766 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2767 * Removed bogus menu file.
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2771 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2774 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2778 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2780 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2781 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2782 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2783 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2784 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2785 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2786 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2790 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2793 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2794 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2795 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2796 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2800 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2802 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2807 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2810 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2811 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2813 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2814 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2815 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2816 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2817 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2818 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2822 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2825 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2826 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2827 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2828 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2829 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2830 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2831 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2832 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2833 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2834 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2835 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2836 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2837 passed any switches.
2838 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2842 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2845 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2846 at all for a long while.
2847 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2848 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2849 large chunks in the process.
2850 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2851 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2852 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2857 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2860 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2862 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2867 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2870 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2871 that don't always have the same files in them.
2872 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2873 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2874 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2878 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2882 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2883 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2884 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2885 updating 27 man pages.
2886 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2887 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2888 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2889 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2890 programs act on. (#25247)
2892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2894 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2898 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2899 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2900 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2901 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2902 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2903 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2908 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2915 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2922 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2925 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2929 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2935 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2938 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2939 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2940 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2941 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2942 package by accident.
2943 * Is version 1.0 next?
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2947 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2950 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2951 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2955 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2958 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2959 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2960 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2961 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2962 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2964 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2969 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2972 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2973 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2977 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2980 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2984 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2987 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2988 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2993 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2999 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3002 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3003 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3008 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3014 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3016 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3017 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3018 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3019 past week. Thanks, guys!
3021 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3022 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3023 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3024 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3025 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3026 would do in the same situation.
3027 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3028 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3030 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3032 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3033 permissions changed.
3034 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3035 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3036 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3037 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3038 files are treated identically.
3039 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3040 * Minor man page fixes.
3041 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3042 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3043 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3047 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3050 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3051 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3052 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3053 use -X multiple times, too.
3054 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3055 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3059 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3062 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3063 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3067 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3070 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3074 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3077 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3078 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3079 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3080 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3081 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3082 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3083 shape if you're starting a new package.
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3087 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3090 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3094 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3097 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3098 because of missing symlinks.
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3102 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3108 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3111 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3112 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3113 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3114 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3115 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3117 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3118 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3122 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3124 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3125 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3126 to be changed after the fact :-)
3127 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3131 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3133 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3134 no version string after the -V.
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3138 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3140 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3141 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3146 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3149 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3153 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3155 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3156 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3157 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3158 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3159 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3160 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3161 I always welcome corrections!
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3165 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3171 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3173 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3174 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3175 * Documented this new switch.
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3179 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3182 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3183 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3184 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3185 no packages use the old behavior.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3189 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3192 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3193 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3197 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3200 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3204 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3210 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3213 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3217 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3220 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3221 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3222 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3226 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3232 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3235 into the source package by accident.
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3239 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3242 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3243 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3244 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3245 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3246 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3247 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3252 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3254 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3256 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3257 inspired to implement some of it.
3258 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3262 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3265 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3269 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3272 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3273 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3277 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3280 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3281 have done.) (#17598)
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3285 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3291 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3297 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3300 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3304 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3307 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3308 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3312 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3315 argument processor in perl.
3316 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3317 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3318 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3319 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3323 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3326 type directories. (#16933)
3327 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3328 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3329 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3330 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3331 are supported. (#16935)
3332 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3337 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3339 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3340 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3344 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3346 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3348 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3349 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3350 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3351 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3352 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3353 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3357 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3360 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3361 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3363 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3364 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3365 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3366 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3367 a given package, or -i or -a.
3368 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3369 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3370 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3371 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3372 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3373 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3374 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3375 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3376 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3378 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3379 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3380 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3384 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3387 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3388 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3393 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3396 does not have a section.
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3400 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3403 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3404 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3405 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3409 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3411 * Fixed typo #16215.
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3415 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3418 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3419 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3420 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3421 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3422 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3427 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3429 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3430 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3431 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3432 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3437 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3443 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3449 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3451 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3452 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3453 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3454 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3455 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3456 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3457 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3461 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3467 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3470 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3474 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3477 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3478 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3479 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3483 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3486 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3490 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3496 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3499 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3503 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3506 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3510 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3516 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3518 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3519 postinst, postrm, etc.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3523 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3529 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3532 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3533 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3534 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3535 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3536 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3540 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3543 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3544 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3548 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3550 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3551 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3555 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3557 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3558 installing package files into.
3559 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3564 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3568 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3572 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3578 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3580 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3581 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3585 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3588 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3589 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3590 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3591 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3595 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3597 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3598 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3599 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3600 multiple binary packages.
3601 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3602 should rebuild them with this version.
3603 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3607 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3610 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3614 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3617 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3621 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3623 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3624 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3625 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3626 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3627 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3628 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3629 debian/README.debian.
3630 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3631 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3632 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3633 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3634 in a few situations.)
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3638 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3644 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3650 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3652 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3653 * Fixed several man pages.
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3657 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3659 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3660 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3661 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3665 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3668 is ready for general use.
3669 * Added man pages for all commands.
3670 * Multiple binary package support.
3671 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3672 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3673 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3675 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3676 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3677 auto-installed as parameters.
3678 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3680 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3683 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3684 the package build directory it is to act on.
3685 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3686 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3687 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3691 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3693 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3694 ready to replace debstd.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400