1 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
4 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
9 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
12 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
13 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
15 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
17 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
19 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
20 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
21 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
26 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
28 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
29 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
33 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
36 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
40 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
43 out section number. Closes: #204731
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
47 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
49 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
54 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
58 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
60 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
62 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
66 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Typo, Closes: #203907
69 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
70 removal. Closes: #204286
72 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
74 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
76 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
77 renaming. Closes: #203548
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
81 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
84 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
85 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
89 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
91 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
93 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
95 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
97 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
101 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
103 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
107 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
109 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
110 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
111 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
112 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
116 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
119 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
120 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
124 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
126 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
130 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
137 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
139 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
140 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
145 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
148 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
152 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
154 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
155 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
157 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
158 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
162 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
165 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
170 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
172 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
173 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
177 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
179 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
183 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
185 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
189 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
192 it break hard links (see #188663).
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
196 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
198 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
199 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
203 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
205 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
209 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
211 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
213 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
214 debconf-mergetemplates
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
218 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
221 pod2man. Closes: #184013
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
225 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
228 * Typo, Closes: #183267
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
232 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
235 * Update debhelper(1).
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
239 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
241 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
242 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
243 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
244 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
245 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
246 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
250 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
253 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
254 the shell. Closes: #178524
255 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
259 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
262 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
266 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
269 undocumented.7 links anymore.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
273 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
275 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
276 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
277 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
278 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
279 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
284 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
287 files from installation.
289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
291 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
293 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
294 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
295 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
299 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
301 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
302 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
306 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
309 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
313 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
315 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
319 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
321 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
325 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
327 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
329 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
330 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
332 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
336 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
338 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
339 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
340 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
341 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
342 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
346 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
348 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
349 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
353 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
355 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
356 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
357 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
361 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
363 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
365 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
370 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
372 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
376 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
380 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
381 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
382 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
387 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
389 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
390 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
391 practice. Closes: #163303
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
395 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
397 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
401 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
408 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
410 * The "reverse hangover" release.
411 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
413 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
414 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
415 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
416 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
417 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
421 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
424 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
429 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
435 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
442 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
445 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
450 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
452 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
456 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
458 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
462 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
468 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
475 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
478 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
479 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
480 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
481 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
486 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Typo, Closes: #155323
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
492 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
499 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
501 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
502 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
503 * Removed dh_installxaw.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
507 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
510 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
511 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
512 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
513 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
514 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
518 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
520 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
521 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
523 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
528 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
530 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
531 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
535 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
538 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
539 right thing. Closes: #150644
541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
543 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
546 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
550 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
552 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
557 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
560 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
561 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
566 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
572 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
575 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
579 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
581 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
582 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
583 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
588 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
591 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
595 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
601 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
603 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
604 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
605 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
609 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
611 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
615 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Removing perl warning message.
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
621 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
624 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
625 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
626 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
627 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
628 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
629 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
630 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
631 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
635 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
637 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
641 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
648 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
651 debconf-mergetemplate.
652 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
653 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
657 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
660 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
661 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
662 dh_install, which ...
663 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
664 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
665 mess, as it uses debian/install.
666 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
667 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
668 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
669 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
670 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
671 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
672 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
673 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
674 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
675 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
676 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
678 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
679 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
680 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
681 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
682 course there's -X ..)
683 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
684 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
685 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
687 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
688 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
689 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
690 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
691 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
696 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
698 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
702 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Typo, Closes: #139176
705 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
709 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
711 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
715 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
717 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
721 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
723 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
727 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
733 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
736 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
737 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
738 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
739 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
741 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
742 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
746 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
752 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
754 * Typo, Closes: #132454
755 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
759 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
762 upset. Closes: #131322
764 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
766 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
768 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
769 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
770 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
771 line, as well as in debian/rules.
772 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
773 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
774 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
775 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
776 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
777 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
778 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
779 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
780 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
781 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
782 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
783 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
785 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
789 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
792 - Better indenting of generated code.
793 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
797 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
799 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
801 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
802 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
803 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
804 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
805 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
806 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
807 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
811 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
813 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
814 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
818 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
821 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
822 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
823 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
824 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
825 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
826 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
827 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
828 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
829 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
830 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
831 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
832 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
833 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
834 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
835 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
840 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
842 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
846 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
848 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
849 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
850 * fixed dh_testdir man page
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
854 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Typo, Closes: #122679
857 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
858 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
862 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
868 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
871 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
872 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
873 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
874 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
875 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
880 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
882 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
886 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
888 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
889 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
893 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
895 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
896 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
901 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
903 * Typo, Closes: #114135
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
907 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
909 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
910 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
914 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
916 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
920 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
924 Also some indentation fixes.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
928 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
931 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
932 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
933 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
934 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
935 Closes: #106514, #85520
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
939 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Typo, Closes: #104405
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
945 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
951 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
953 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
957 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
963 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
965 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
969 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
972 change it in debhelper v4..
974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
976 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
978 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
982 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
984 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
985 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
987 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
989 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
991 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
992 is not essential. Closes: #100430
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
996 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
998 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1002 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1005 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1006 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1007 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1008 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1009 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1010 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1011 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1012 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1013 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1014 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1015 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1016 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1020 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1023 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1027 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1034 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1037 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1038 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1039 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1040 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1041 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1042 program those options go to. So, for example,
1043 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1044 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1045 something complex. Closes: #89311
1046 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1050 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1053 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1054 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1055 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1059 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1062 through loop. Closes: #98598
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1066 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Missing semi-colon.
1069 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1070 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1074 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1077 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1078 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1079 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1083 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1086 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1087 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1091 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1094 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1098 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1101 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1102 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1106 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1108 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1109 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1110 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1111 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1115 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1117 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1118 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1119 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1120 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1124 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1127 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1131 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1137 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1143 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1149 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1151 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1155 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1158 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1162 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1164 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1165 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1166 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1167 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1168 followed. Closes: #85483
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1172 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1174 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1175 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1176 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1180 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1182 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1183 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1184 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1185 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1186 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1187 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1188 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1189 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1190 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1191 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1192 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1193 Closes: #88464, #77743
1194 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1195 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1196 us to deal with that gracefully.
1197 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1199 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1200 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1201 a while, Closes: #51225
1203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1205 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1211 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1213 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1214 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1218 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1220 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1222 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1227 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1230 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1231 don't make packlist files.
1232 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1233 debhelper coding standards.
1234 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1235 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1239 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1242 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1246 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1249 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1250 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1251 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1252 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1253 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1254 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1255 but is mildly deprecated.
1256 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1257 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1258 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1259 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1260 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1261 switching to statoverrides..
1262 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1263 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1264 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1265 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1266 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1267 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1269 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1270 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1271 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1272 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1273 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1274 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1275 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1276 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1277 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1279 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1280 variable names, pod man pages).
1281 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1282 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1283 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1284 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1285 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1286 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1287 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1291 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1297 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1304 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1307 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1311 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1313 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1314 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1315 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1319 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1321 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1322 they were previously ignored.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1326 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1328 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1329 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1333 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1335 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1336 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1337 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1341 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1343 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1347 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1349 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1350 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1354 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1356 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1357 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1358 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1359 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1360 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1361 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1362 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1363 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1364 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1365 it is an obsolete program.
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1369 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1371 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1375 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1379 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1381 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1385 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1387 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1389 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1391 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1395 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1401 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1403 * typo: Closes, #78567
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1407 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1413 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1419 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1422 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1423 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1424 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1425 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1426 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1430 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1433 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1438 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1441 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1442 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1443 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1444 backwards-compatability.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1448 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1451 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1452 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1453 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1454 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1455 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1456 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1458 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1459 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1460 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1462 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1464 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1465 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1466 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1467 should now be raised to severity important..
1468 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1469 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1473 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1476 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1481 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1487 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1493 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1499 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1501 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1506 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1508 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1509 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1510 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1511 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1512 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1516 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1522 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1525 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1526 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1527 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1528 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1529 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1530 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1535 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1538 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1542 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1548 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1551 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1556 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1559 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1560 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1561 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1562 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1566 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1570 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1573 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1576 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1577 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1580 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1582 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1583 the TODO entry about it.
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1587 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1594 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1597 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1598 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1602 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1605 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1606 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1607 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1608 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1612 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1618 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1625 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1628 (this appears to be logal).
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1632 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1635 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1636 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1637 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1638 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1642 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1648 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1651 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1652 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1653 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1654 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1658 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1664 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1667 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1671 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1678 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1681 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1682 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1683 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1688 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1690 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1695 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1701 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1704 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1705 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1706 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1707 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1708 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1709 notice until v2 is complete.
1710 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1711 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1712 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1713 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1714 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1715 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1717 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1718 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1719 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1720 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1724 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1730 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1737 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1740 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1744 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1751 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1754 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1755 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1756 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1757 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1762 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1765 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1766 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1767 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1772 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1775 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1776 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1780 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1783 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1787 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1790 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1794 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1801 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1803 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1804 depend on the build and install targets.
1806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1808 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1810 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1811 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1822 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1828 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1834 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1837 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1838 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1839 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1840 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1841 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1842 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1844 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1845 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1846 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1847 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1848 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1849 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1850 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1854 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1860 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1866 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1869 right place. Closes: #55065
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1873 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1880 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1883 * Copyright date updates.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1887 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1890 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1895 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1901 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1908 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1914 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1920 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1922 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1926 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1929 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1930 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1931 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1932 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1933 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1934 bits until all files have been registered.
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1938 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_installmanpages:
1941 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1942 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1943 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1944 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1945 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1946 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1947 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1948 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1949 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1950 otherwise change the result at all.
1952 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1953 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1954 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1955 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1956 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1961 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1967 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1970 act on files that don't exist.
1971 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1972 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1973 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1975 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1976 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1977 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1978 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1982 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1988 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1994 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1996 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1997 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2001 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2004 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2006 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2007 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2008 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2012 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2015 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2016 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2017 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2018 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2019 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2020 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2021 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2023 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2025 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2029 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2036 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2042 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2044 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2048 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2050 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2051 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2055 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2057 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2061 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2067 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2070 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2071 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2072 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2073 I made some changes, though:
2074 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2075 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2076 that is a clear violation of policy.
2077 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2078 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2079 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2080 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2081 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2082 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2083 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2084 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2085 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2087 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2091 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2093 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2097 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2100 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2104 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2107 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2108 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2113 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2119 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2121 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2126 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2128 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2129 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2130 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2131 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2132 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2133 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2134 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2135 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2139 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2141 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2145 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2149 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2150 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2154 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2156 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2160 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2163 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2167 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2170 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2171 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2175 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2177 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2182 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2186 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2190 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2193 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2194 for the dependancies to be generated.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2198 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2201 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2205 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2208 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2209 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2210 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2215 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2218 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2219 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2223 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2225 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2229 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2235 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2238 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2242 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2248 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2251 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2252 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2253 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2254 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2255 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2256 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2257 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2258 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2259 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2260 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2261 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2262 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2266 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2269 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2270 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2272 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2273 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2274 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2275 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2276 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2277 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2279 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2280 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2284 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2287 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2291 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2298 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2301 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2306 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2309 for building debhelper.
2310 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2314 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2321 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2324 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2328 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2330 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2331 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2332 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2333 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2334 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2335 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2336 it's always available.
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2340 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2343 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2344 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2345 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2349 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2352 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2353 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2357 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2363 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2366 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2370 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2376 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2379 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2380 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2381 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2383 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2385 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2387 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2388 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2393 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2396 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2397 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2399 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2400 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2404 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2410 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2416 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2419 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2423 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2426 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2427 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2429 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2433 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2436 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2437 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2438 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2442 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2445 things if CDPATH is set.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2449 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2455 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2458 seems to make sense for the transition.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2462 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2465 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2470 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2473 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2474 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2478 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2481 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2485 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2488 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2489 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2490 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2491 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2495 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2501 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2504 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2505 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2506 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2507 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2508 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2509 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2510 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2511 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2512 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2513 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2518 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2521 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2522 * README: mention doc/v2
2523 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2524 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2528 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2530 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2531 be using this script RSN.
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2535 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2538 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2539 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2540 more than 1 init script.
2542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2544 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2546 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2547 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2551 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * Changed perl version detection.
2554 * Changed call to find.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2558 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2561 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2563 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2568 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * Really include dh_installpam.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2574 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2577 * Wrote man page for same.
2579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2581 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2583 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2584 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2585 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2590 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2597 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2600 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2601 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2602 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2603 x bit was being set!
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2607 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2610 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2611 well. (Closes: 38900)
2613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2615 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2617 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2618 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2619 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2623 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2629 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2636 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2642 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2645 help from Julian Gilbey.
2646 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2647 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2648 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2649 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2650 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2651 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2652 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2657 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2663 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2670 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2676 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2678 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2682 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2685 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2689 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2692 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2696 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2699 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2703 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2705 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2709 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2712 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2716 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2722 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2728 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2730 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2731 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2732 may be deleted. (#35845)
2734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2736 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2738 * Various man page enhancements.
2739 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2744 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2747 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2748 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2752 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2755 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2756 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2757 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2759 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2760 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2765 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2771 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2773 * Another very minor typo fix.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2777 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Very minor typo fix.
2781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2783 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2785 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2786 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2787 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2791 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2797 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2800 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2801 variables properly (#34850).
2803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2805 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2811 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2814 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2815 (automatically generated by build process).
2817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2819 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2821 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2825 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2827 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2828 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2829 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2831 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2835 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2838 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2842 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * README: minor typo fix.
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2848 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2851 leave it at that. :-)
2853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2855 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2857 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2861 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2867 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2869 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2870 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2871 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2872 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2876 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2879 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2883 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2885 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2886 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2890 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2893 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2894 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2895 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2896 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2900 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2903 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2904 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2905 Craig Small for spotting this.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2909 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2912 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2913 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2917 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2923 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2925 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2926 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2930 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2932 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2933 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2934 working on the last version of debhelper.
2936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2938 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2941 being made. (#23255)
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2945 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2951 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2954 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2958 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2961 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2962 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2963 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2964 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2968 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2971 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2972 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2973 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2974 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2976 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2977 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2979 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2984 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2990 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2996 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2999 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3000 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3001 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3002 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3003 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3004 suidregister actually supports it.
3005 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3006 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3010 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3017 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3020 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3021 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3022 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3023 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3024 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3025 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3026 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3030 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3032 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3033 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3037 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3040 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3041 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3042 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3043 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3047 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3049 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3050 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3052 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3053 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3054 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3055 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3056 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3057 effect, either. (#30118)
3059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3061 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3063 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3067 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3070 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3071 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3075 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3081 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3084 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3085 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3086 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3087 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3091 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3094 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3095 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3099 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3105 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3108 packages, painlessly.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3112 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3118 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3124 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3130 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * The perl conversion is complete.
3134 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3136 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3137 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3138 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3143 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3146 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3147 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3148 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3152 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3155 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3157 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3159 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3160 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3164 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3167 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3168 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3172 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3178 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3181 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3182 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3183 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3184 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3185 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3189 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3192 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3193 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3194 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3195 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3199 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3202 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3206 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3209 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3210 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3211 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3212 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3213 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3214 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3215 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3216 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3220 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3226 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3229 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3230 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3231 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3236 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3238 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3239 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3243 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3246 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3250 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3253 sections of shared libraries.
3254 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3255 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3256 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3257 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3258 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3259 things you don't want them to.
3260 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3261 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3265 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3268 shared libraries. (#26414)
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3272 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3274 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3275 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3276 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3277 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3281 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3283 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3285 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3287 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3288 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3289 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3290 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3291 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3295 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3298 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3302 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3304 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3305 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3306 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3311 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3314 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3318 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3321 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3322 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3323 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3324 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3325 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3327 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3328 remove debian/files properly.
3329 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3330 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3331 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3332 * Removed bogus menu file.
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3336 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3339 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3343 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3346 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3347 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3348 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3349 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3350 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3351 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3355 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3358 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3359 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3360 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3361 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3365 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3372 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3374 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3375 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3376 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3378 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3379 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3380 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3381 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3382 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3383 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3387 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3390 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3391 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3392 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3393 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3394 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3395 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3396 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3397 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3398 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3399 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3400 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3401 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3402 passed any switches.
3403 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3407 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3410 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3411 at all for a long while.
3412 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3413 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3414 large chunks in the process.
3415 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3416 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3417 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3422 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3424 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3425 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3427 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3432 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3435 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3436 that don't always have the same files in them.
3437 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3438 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3439 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3443 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3447 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3448 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3449 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3450 updating 27 man pages.
3451 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3452 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3453 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3454 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3455 programs act on. (#25247)
3457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3459 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3463 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3464 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3465 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3466 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3467 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3468 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3473 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3480 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3487 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3489 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3490 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3494 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3496 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3500 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3503 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3504 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3505 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3506 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3507 package by accident.
3508 * Is version 1.0 next?
3510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3512 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3514 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3515 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3516 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3520 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3522 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3523 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3524 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3525 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3526 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3527 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3529 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3534 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3537 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3538 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3542 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3545 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3549 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3552 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3553 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3558 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3564 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3566 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3567 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3568 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3573 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3579 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3582 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3583 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3584 past week. Thanks, guys!
3586 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3587 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3588 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3589 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3590 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3591 would do in the same situation.
3592 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3593 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3595 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3597 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3598 permissions changed.
3599 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3600 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3601 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3602 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3603 files are treated identically.
3604 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3605 * Minor man page fixes.
3606 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3607 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3608 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3612 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3614 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3615 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3616 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3617 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3618 use -X multiple times, too.
3619 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3620 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3624 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3626 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3627 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3628 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3632 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3635 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3639 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3642 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3643 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3644 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3645 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3646 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3647 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3648 shape if you're starting a new package.
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3652 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3655 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3659 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3661 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3662 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3663 because of missing symlinks.
3665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3667 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3669 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3673 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3676 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3677 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3678 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3679 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3680 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3682 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3683 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3687 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3689 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3690 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3691 to be changed after the fact :-)
3692 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3696 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3699 no version string after the -V.
3701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3703 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3705 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3706 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3711 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3714 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3718 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3721 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3722 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3723 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3724 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3725 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3726 I always welcome corrections!
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3730 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3736 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3739 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3740 * Documented this new switch.
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3744 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3747 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3748 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3749 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3750 no packages use the old behavior.
3752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3754 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3756 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3757 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3758 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3762 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3765 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3769 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3775 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3777 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3778 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3782 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3784 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3785 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3786 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3787 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3791 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3793 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3797 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3799 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3800 into the source package by accident.
3802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3804 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3806 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3807 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3808 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3809 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3810 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3811 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3812 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3817 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3821 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3822 inspired to implement some of it.
3823 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3827 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3829 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3830 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3834 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3836 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3837 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3838 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3842 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3844 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3845 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3846 have done.) (#17598)
3848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3850 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3852 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3856 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3862 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3865 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3869 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3871 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3872 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3873 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3877 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3880 argument processor in perl.
3881 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3882 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3883 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3884 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3888 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3890 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3891 type directories. (#16933)
3892 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3893 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3894 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3895 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3896 are supported. (#16935)
3897 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3902 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3905 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3909 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3911 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3913 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3914 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3915 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3916 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3917 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3918 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3922 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3924 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3925 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3926 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3928 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3929 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3930 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3931 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3932 a given package, or -i or -a.
3933 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3934 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3935 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3936 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3937 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3938 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3939 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3940 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3941 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3943 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3944 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3945 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3949 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3951 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3952 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3953 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3958 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3960 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3961 does not have a section.
3963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3965 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3967 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3968 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3969 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3970 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3974 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * Fixed typo #16215.
3978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3980 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3982 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3983 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3984 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3985 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3986 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3987 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3992 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3994 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3995 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3996 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3997 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4002 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4004 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4008 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4010 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4014 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4016 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4017 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4018 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4019 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4020 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4021 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4022 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4026 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4028 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4032 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4034 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4035 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4039 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4041 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4042 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4043 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4044 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4048 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4050 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4051 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4055 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4061 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4064 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4068 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4070 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4071 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4075 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4077 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4081 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4084 postinst, postrm, etc.
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4088 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4094 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4096 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4097 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4098 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4099 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4100 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4101 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4105 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4108 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4109 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4113 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4115 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4116 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4120 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4122 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4123 installing package files into.
4124 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4129 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4131 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4133 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4137 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4139 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4143 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4145 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4146 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4150 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4152 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4153 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4154 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4155 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4156 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4160 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4162 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4163 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4164 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4165 multiple binary packages.
4166 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4167 should rebuild them with this version.
4168 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4172 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4174 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4175 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4179 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4182 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4186 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4188 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4189 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4190 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4191 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4192 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4193 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4194 debian/README.debian.
4195 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4196 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4197 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4198 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4199 in a few situations.)
4201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4203 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4205 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4209 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4211 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4215 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4217 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4218 * Fixed several man pages.
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4222 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4225 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4226 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4230 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4232 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4233 is ready for general use.
4234 * Added man pages for all commands.
4235 * Multiple binary package support.
4236 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4237 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4238 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4240 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4241 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4242 auto-installed as parameters.
4243 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4245 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4248 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4249 the package build directory it is to act on.
4250 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4251 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4252 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4256 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4258 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4259 ready to replace debstd.
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400