1 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
4 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
8 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
11 out section number. Closes: #204731
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
15 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
22 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
24 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
28 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
30 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
34 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Typo, Closes: #203907
37 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
38 removal. Closes: #204286
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
42 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
44 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
45 renaming. Closes: #203548
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
49 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
51 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
52 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
53 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
57 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
59 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
63 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
65 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
69 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
75 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
77 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
78 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
79 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
80 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
84 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
87 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
88 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
92 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
94 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
98 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
105 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
107 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
108 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
113 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
115 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
116 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
120 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
123 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
125 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
126 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
130 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
133 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
138 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
141 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
145 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
151 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
153 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
157 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
159 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
160 it break hard links (see #188663).
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
164 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
167 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
171 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
173 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
177 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
179 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
181 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
182 debconf-mergetemplates
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
186 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
189 pod2man. Closes: #184013
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
193 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
196 * Typo, Closes: #183267
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
200 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
202 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
203 * Update debhelper(1).
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
207 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
209 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
210 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
211 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
212 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
213 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
214 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
218 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
221 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
222 the shell. Closes: #178524
223 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
227 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
230 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
234 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
236 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
237 undocumented.7 links anymore.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
241 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
243 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
244 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
245 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
246 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
247 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
252 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
255 files from installation.
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
259 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
262 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
263 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
267 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
269 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
270 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
274 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
277 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
281 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
287 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
293 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
295 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
297 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
298 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
300 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
304 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
307 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
308 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
309 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
310 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
314 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
316 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
317 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
321 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
324 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
325 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
329 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
333 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
338 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
340 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
344 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
348 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
349 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
350 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
355 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
357 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
358 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
359 practice. Closes: #163303
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
363 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
369 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
371 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
376 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
378 * The "reverse hangover" release.
379 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
381 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
382 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
383 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
384 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
385 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
389 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
391 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
392 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
397 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
403 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
410 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
413 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
418 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
420 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
424 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
426 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
430 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
432 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
436 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
443 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
446 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
447 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
448 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
449 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
454 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Typo, Closes: #155323
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
460 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
467 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
470 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
471 * Removed dh_installxaw.
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
475 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
477 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
478 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
479 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
480 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
481 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
482 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
486 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
489 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
491 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
496 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
498 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
499 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
503 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
505 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
506 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
507 right thing. Closes: #150644
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
511 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
518 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
520 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
525 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
527 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
528 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
529 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
534 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
536 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
540 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
543 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
547 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
550 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
551 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
556 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
558 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
559 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
563 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
569 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
571 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
572 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
573 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
577 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
583 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Removing perl warning message.
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
589 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
591 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
592 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
593 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
594 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
595 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
596 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
597 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
598 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
599 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
603 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
609 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
616 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
618 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
619 debconf-mergetemplate.
620 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
621 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
625 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
627 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
628 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
629 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
630 dh_install, which ...
631 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
632 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
633 mess, as it uses debian/install.
634 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
635 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
636 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
637 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
638 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
639 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
640 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
641 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
642 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
643 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
644 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
646 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
647 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
648 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
649 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
650 course there's -X ..)
651 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
652 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
653 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
655 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
656 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
657 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
658 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
659 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
664 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
670 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Typo, Closes: #139176
673 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
677 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
683 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
689 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
691 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
695 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
697 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
701 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
703 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
704 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
705 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
706 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
707 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
709 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
710 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
714 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
716 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
720 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Typo, Closes: #132454
723 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
727 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
729 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
730 upset. Closes: #131322
732 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
734 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
737 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
738 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
739 line, as well as in debian/rules.
740 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
741 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
742 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
743 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
744 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
745 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
746 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
747 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
748 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
749 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
750 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
751 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
753 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
757 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
760 - Better indenting of generated code.
761 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
765 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
767 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
769 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
770 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
771 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
772 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
773 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
774 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
775 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
779 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
781 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
782 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
786 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
788 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
789 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
790 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
791 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
792 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
793 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
794 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
795 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
796 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
797 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
798 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
799 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
800 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
801 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
802 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
803 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
808 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
814 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
816 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
817 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
818 * fixed dh_testdir man page
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
822 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Typo, Closes: #122679
825 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
826 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
830 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
836 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
839 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
840 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
841 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
842 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
843 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
848 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
850 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
854 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
856 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
857 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
861 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
864 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
869 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
871 * Typo, Closes: #114135
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
875 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
877 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
878 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
882 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
884 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
888 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
890 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
892 Also some indentation fixes.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
896 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
899 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
900 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
901 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
902 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
903 Closes: #106514, #85520
905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
907 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Typo, Closes: #104405
911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
913 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
915 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
919 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
921 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
925 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
931 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
933 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
937 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
940 change it in debhelper v4..
942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
944 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
946 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
950 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
952 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
953 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
957 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
960 is not essential. Closes: #100430
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
964 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
970 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
973 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
974 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
975 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
976 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
977 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
978 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
979 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
980 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
981 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
982 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
983 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
984 prefixed with ".debhelper")
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
988 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
990 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
991 look just like shared libs, but are not.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
995 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
997 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1002 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1005 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1006 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1007 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1008 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1009 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1010 program those options go to. So, for example,
1011 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1012 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1013 something complex. Closes: #89311
1014 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1018 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1021 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1022 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1023 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1027 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1030 through loop. Closes: #98598
1032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1034 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1036 * Missing semi-colon.
1037 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1038 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1042 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1045 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1046 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1047 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1051 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1053 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1054 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1055 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1059 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1062 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1066 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1068 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1069 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1070 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1074 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1077 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1078 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1079 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1083 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1086 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1087 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1088 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1092 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1095 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1099 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1105 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1111 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1117 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1123 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1126 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1130 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1133 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1134 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1135 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1136 followed. Closes: #85483
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1140 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1142 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1143 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1144 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1148 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1151 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1152 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1153 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1154 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1155 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1156 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1157 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1158 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1159 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1160 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1161 Closes: #88464, #77743
1162 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1163 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1164 us to deal with that gracefully.
1165 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1167 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1168 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1169 a while, Closes: #51225
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1173 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1179 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1182 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1186 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1190 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1193 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1195 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1197 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1198 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1199 don't make packlist files.
1200 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1201 debhelper coding standards.
1202 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1203 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1207 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1210 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1214 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1217 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1218 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1219 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1220 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1221 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1222 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1223 but is mildly deprecated.
1224 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1225 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1226 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1227 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1228 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1229 switching to statoverrides..
1230 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1231 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1232 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1233 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1234 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1235 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1237 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1238 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1239 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1240 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1241 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1242 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1243 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1244 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1245 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1247 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1248 variable names, pod man pages).
1249 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1250 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1251 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1252 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1253 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1254 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1255 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1259 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1265 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1272 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1274 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1275 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1279 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1281 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1282 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1283 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1287 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1289 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1290 they were previously ignored.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1294 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1296 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1297 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1301 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1303 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1304 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1305 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1309 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1311 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1315 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1317 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1318 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1322 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1324 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1325 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1326 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1327 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1328 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1329 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1330 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1331 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1332 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1333 it is an obsolete program.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1337 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1339 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1343 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1347 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1349 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1353 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1355 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1357 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1359 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1363 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1369 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * typo: Closes, #78567
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1375 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1381 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1387 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1390 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1391 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1392 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1393 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1394 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1398 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1401 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1406 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1409 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1410 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1411 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1412 backwards-compatability.
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1416 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1419 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1420 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1421 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1422 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1423 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1424 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1426 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1427 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1428 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1430 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1432 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1433 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1434 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1435 should now be raised to severity important..
1436 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1437 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1441 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1444 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1449 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1455 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1461 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1467 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1474 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1477 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1478 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1479 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1480 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1484 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1490 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1492 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1493 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1494 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1495 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1496 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1497 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1498 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1503 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1506 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1510 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1516 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1519 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1524 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1526 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1527 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1528 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1529 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1530 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1534 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1538 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1541 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1543 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1544 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1545 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1548 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1550 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1551 the TODO entry about it.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1555 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1562 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1565 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1566 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1570 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1573 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1574 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1575 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1576 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1580 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1586 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1593 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1596 (this appears to be logal).
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1600 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1603 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1604 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1605 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1606 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1610 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1612 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1616 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1619 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1620 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1621 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1622 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1626 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1632 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1635 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1639 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1646 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1649 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1650 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1651 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1656 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1663 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1669 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1672 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1673 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1674 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1675 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1676 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1677 notice until v2 is complete.
1678 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1679 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1680 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1681 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1682 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1683 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1685 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1686 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1687 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1688 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1692 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1694 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1698 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1705 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1708 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1712 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1719 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1722 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1723 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1724 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1725 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1730 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1733 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1734 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1735 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1740 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1743 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1744 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1748 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1751 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1755 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1758 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1762 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1769 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1772 depend on the build and install targets.
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1776 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1779 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1783 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1790 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1796 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1802 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1805 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1806 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1807 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1808 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1809 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1810 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1812 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1813 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1814 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1815 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1816 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1817 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1818 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1822 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1828 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1834 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1837 right place. Closes: #55065
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1841 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1848 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1851 * Copyright date updates.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1855 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1858 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1863 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1865 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1869 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1876 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1882 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1888 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1890 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1894 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1896 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1897 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1898 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1899 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1900 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1901 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1902 bits until all files have been registered.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1906 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * dh_installmanpages:
1909 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1910 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1911 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1912 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1913 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1914 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1915 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1916 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1917 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1918 otherwise change the result at all.
1920 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1921 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1922 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1923 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1924 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1929 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1931 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1935 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1938 act on files that don't exist.
1939 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1940 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1941 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1943 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1944 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1945 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1946 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1950 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1956 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1962 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1965 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1969 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1971 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1972 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1974 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1975 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1976 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1980 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1983 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1984 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1985 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1986 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1987 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1988 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1989 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1991 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1993 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1997 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2004 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2010 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2016 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2019 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2023 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2029 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2035 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2037 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2038 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2039 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2040 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2041 I made some changes, though:
2042 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2043 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2044 that is a clear violation of policy.
2045 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2046 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2047 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2048 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2049 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2050 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2051 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2052 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2053 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2055 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2059 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2065 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2068 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2072 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2074 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2075 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2076 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2081 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2087 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2094 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2097 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2098 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2099 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2100 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2101 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2102 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2103 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2107 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2113 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2117 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2118 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2122 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2128 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2131 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2135 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2138 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2139 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2143 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2145 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2150 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2154 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2158 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2161 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2162 for the dependancies to be generated.
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2166 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2169 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2173 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2175 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2176 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2177 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2178 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2183 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2186 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2187 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2191 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2197 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2203 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2206 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2210 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2216 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2219 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2220 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2221 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2222 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2223 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2224 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2225 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2226 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2227 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2228 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2229 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2230 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2234 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2236 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2237 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2238 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2240 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2241 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2242 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2243 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2244 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2245 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2247 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2248 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2252 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2255 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2259 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2266 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2268 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2269 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2274 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2276 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2277 for building debhelper.
2278 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2282 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2289 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2292 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2296 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2298 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2299 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2300 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2301 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2302 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2303 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2304 it's always available.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2308 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2311 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2312 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2313 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2317 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2320 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2321 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2325 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2331 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2334 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2338 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2340 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2344 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2347 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2348 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2349 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2353 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2355 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2356 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2361 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2364 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2365 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2367 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2368 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2372 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2374 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2378 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2384 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2387 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2391 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2394 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2395 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2397 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2401 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2403 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2404 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2405 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2406 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2410 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2413 things if CDPATH is set.
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2417 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2423 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2426 seems to make sense for the transition.
2428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2430 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2432 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2433 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2438 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2441 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2442 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2446 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2449 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2453 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2456 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2457 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2458 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2459 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2463 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2469 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2472 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2473 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2474 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2475 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2476 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2477 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2478 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2479 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2480 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2481 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2486 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2488 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2489 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2490 * README: mention doc/v2
2491 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2492 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2496 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2498 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2499 be using this script RSN.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2503 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2506 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2507 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2508 more than 1 init script.
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2512 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2515 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2519 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Changed perl version detection.
2522 * Changed call to find.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2526 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2529 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2531 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2536 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * Really include dh_installpam.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2542 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2545 * Wrote man page for same.
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2549 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2552 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2553 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2558 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2565 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2568 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2569 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2570 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2571 x bit was being set!
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2575 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2578 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2579 well. (Closes: 38900)
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2583 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2586 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2587 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2591 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2593 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2597 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2604 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2610 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2613 help from Julian Gilbey.
2614 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2615 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2616 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2617 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2618 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2619 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2620 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2625 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2631 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2638 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2644 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2650 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2653 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2657 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2660 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2664 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2667 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2671 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2677 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2680 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2684 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2690 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2696 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2699 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2700 may be deleted. (#35845)
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2704 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * Various man page enhancements.
2707 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2712 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2715 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2716 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2720 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2723 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2724 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2725 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2727 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2728 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2733 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2735 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2739 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Another very minor typo fix.
2743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2745 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2747 * Very minor typo fix.
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2751 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2754 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2755 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2759 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2765 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2768 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2769 variables properly (#34850).
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2773 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2779 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2781 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2782 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2783 (automatically generated by build process).
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2787 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2789 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2791 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2793 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2795 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2796 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2797 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2799 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2803 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2806 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2810 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * README: minor typo fix.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2816 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2819 leave it at that. :-)
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2823 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2829 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2835 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2837 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2838 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2839 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2840 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2844 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2847 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2851 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2854 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2858 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2861 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2862 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2863 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2864 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2868 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2871 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2872 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2873 Craig Small for spotting this.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2877 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2879 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2880 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2881 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2885 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2891 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2894 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2898 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2900 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2901 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2902 working on the last version of debhelper.
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2906 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2909 being made. (#23255)
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2913 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2919 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2922 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2926 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2929 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2930 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2931 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2932 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2936 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2939 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2940 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2941 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2942 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2944 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2945 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2947 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2952 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2958 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2964 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2966 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2967 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2968 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2969 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2970 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2971 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2972 suidregister actually supports it.
2973 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2974 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2978 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2985 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2988 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2989 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2990 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2991 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2992 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2993 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2994 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2998 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3000 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3001 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3005 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3008 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3009 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3010 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3011 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3015 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3018 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3020 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3021 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3022 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3023 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3024 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3025 effect, either. (#30118)
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3029 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3035 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3038 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3039 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3043 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3049 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3052 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3053 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3054 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3055 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3059 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3062 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3063 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3067 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3073 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3076 packages, painlessly.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3080 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3086 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3092 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3098 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * The perl conversion is complete.
3102 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3104 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3105 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3106 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3111 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3113 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3114 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3115 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3116 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3120 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3122 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3123 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3125 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3127 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3128 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3132 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3135 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3136 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3140 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3142 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3146 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3149 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3150 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3151 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3152 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3153 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3157 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3160 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3161 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3162 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3163 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3167 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3170 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3174 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3177 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3178 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3179 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3180 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3181 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3182 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3183 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3184 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3188 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3194 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3197 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3198 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3199 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3204 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3207 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3211 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3214 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3218 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3221 sections of shared libraries.
3222 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3223 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3224 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3225 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3226 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3227 things you don't want them to.
3228 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3229 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3233 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3236 shared libraries. (#26414)
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3240 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3242 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3243 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3244 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3245 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3249 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3253 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3255 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3256 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3257 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3258 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3259 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3263 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3266 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3270 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3273 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3274 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3279 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3282 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3286 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3289 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3290 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3291 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3292 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3293 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3295 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3296 remove debian/files properly.
3297 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3298 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3299 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3300 * Removed bogus menu file.
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3304 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3307 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3311 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3314 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3315 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3316 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3317 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3318 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3319 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3323 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3326 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3327 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3328 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3329 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3333 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3340 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3343 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3344 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3346 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3347 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3348 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3349 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3350 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3351 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3355 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3358 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3359 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3360 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3361 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3362 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3363 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3364 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3365 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3366 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3367 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3368 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3369 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3370 passed any switches.
3371 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3375 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3378 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3379 at all for a long while.
3380 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3381 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3382 large chunks in the process.
3383 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3384 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3385 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3390 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3392 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3393 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3395 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3400 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3402 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3403 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3404 that don't always have the same files in them.
3405 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3406 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3407 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3411 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3415 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3416 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3417 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3418 updating 27 man pages.
3419 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3420 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3421 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3422 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3423 programs act on. (#25247)
3425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3427 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3431 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3432 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3433 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3434 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3435 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3436 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3441 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3448 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3455 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3458 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3462 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3464 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3468 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3471 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3472 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3473 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3474 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3475 package by accident.
3476 * Is version 1.0 next?
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3480 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3483 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3484 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3488 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3491 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3492 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3493 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3494 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3495 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3497 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3502 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3504 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3505 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3506 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3510 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3513 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3517 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3520 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3521 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3526 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3528 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3532 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3535 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3536 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3541 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3547 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3550 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3551 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3552 past week. Thanks, guys!
3554 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3555 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3556 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3557 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3558 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3559 would do in the same situation.
3560 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3561 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3563 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3565 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3566 permissions changed.
3567 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3568 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3569 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3570 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3571 files are treated identically.
3572 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3573 * Minor man page fixes.
3574 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3575 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3576 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3580 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3582 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3583 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3584 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3585 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3586 use -X multiple times, too.
3587 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3588 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3592 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3594 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3595 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3596 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3600 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3603 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3607 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3610 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3611 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3612 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3613 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3614 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3615 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3616 shape if you're starting a new package.
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3620 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3623 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3627 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3630 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3631 because of missing symlinks.
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3635 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3641 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3643 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3644 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3645 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3646 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3647 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3648 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3650 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3651 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3655 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3657 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3658 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3659 to be changed after the fact :-)
3660 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3664 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3666 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3667 no version string after the -V.
3669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3671 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3673 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3674 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3679 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3682 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3686 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3688 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3689 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3690 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3691 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3692 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3693 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3694 I always welcome corrections!
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3698 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3704 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3706 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3707 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3708 * Documented this new switch.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3712 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3715 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3716 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3717 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3718 no packages use the old behavior.
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3722 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3724 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3725 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3726 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3730 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3733 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3737 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3743 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3746 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3750 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3752 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3753 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3754 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3755 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3759 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3761 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3765 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3768 into the source package by accident.
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3772 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3774 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3775 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3776 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3777 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3778 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3779 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3780 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3785 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3787 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3789 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3790 inspired to implement some of it.
3791 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3795 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3798 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3802 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3804 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3805 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3806 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3810 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3812 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3813 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3814 have done.) (#17598)
3816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3818 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3820 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3824 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3826 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3830 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3833 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3837 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3839 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3840 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3841 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3845 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3848 argument processor in perl.
3849 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3850 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3851 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3852 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3856 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3858 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3859 type directories. (#16933)
3860 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3861 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3862 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3863 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3864 are supported. (#16935)
3865 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3870 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3873 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3877 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3879 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3881 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3882 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3883 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3884 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3885 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3886 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3890 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3892 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3893 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3894 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3896 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3897 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3898 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3899 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3900 a given package, or -i or -a.
3901 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3902 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3903 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3904 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3905 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3906 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3907 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3908 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3909 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3911 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3912 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3913 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3917 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3919 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3920 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3921 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3926 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3929 does not have a section.
3931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3933 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3935 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3936 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3937 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3938 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3942 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3944 * Fixed typo #16215.
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3948 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3951 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3952 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3953 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3954 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3955 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3960 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3963 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3964 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3965 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3970 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3972 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3976 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3978 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3982 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3984 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3985 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3986 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3987 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3988 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3989 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3990 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3994 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4000 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4003 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4007 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4010 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4011 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4012 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4016 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4019 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4023 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4025 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4029 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4032 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4036 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4039 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4043 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4049 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4052 postinst, postrm, etc.
4054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4056 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4058 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4062 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4064 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4065 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4066 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4067 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4068 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4069 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4073 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4075 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4076 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4077 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4081 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4084 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4088 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4090 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4091 installing package files into.
4092 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4097 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4099 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4101 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4105 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4107 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4111 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4114 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4118 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4120 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4121 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4122 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4123 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4124 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4128 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4130 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4131 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4132 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4133 multiple binary packages.
4134 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4135 should rebuild them with this version.
4136 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4140 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4143 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4147 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4150 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4154 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4156 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4157 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4158 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4159 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4160 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4161 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4162 debian/README.debian.
4163 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4164 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4165 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4166 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4167 in a few situations.)
4169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4171 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4173 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4177 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4179 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4183 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4186 * Fixed several man pages.
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4190 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4193 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4194 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4198 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4201 is ready for general use.
4202 * Added man pages for all commands.
4203 * Multiple binary package support.
4204 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4205 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4206 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4208 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4209 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4210 auto-installed as parameters.
4211 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4213 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4216 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4217 the package build directory it is to act on.
4218 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4219 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4220 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4224 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4226 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4227 ready to replace debstd.
4229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400