1 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
4 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
5 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
6 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
7 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
9 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
10 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
14 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
20 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
22 * Typo, Closes: #132454
23 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
27 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
29 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
30 upset. Closes: #131322
32 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
34 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
37 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
38 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
39 line, as well as in debian/rules.
40 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
41 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
42 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
43 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
44 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
45 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
46 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
47 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
48 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
49 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
50 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
51 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
53 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
57 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
60 - Better indenting of generated code.
61 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
65 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
67 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
69 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
70 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
71 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
72 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
73 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
74 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
75 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
77 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
79 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
81 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
82 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
86 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
88 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
89 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
90 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
91 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
92 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
93 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
94 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
95 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
96 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
97 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
98 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
99 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
100 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
101 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
102 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
103 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
108 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
110 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
114 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
117 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
118 * fixed dh_testdir man page
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
122 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Typo, Closes: #122679
125 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
126 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
130 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
136 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
138 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
139 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
140 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
141 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
142 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
143 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
148 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
150 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
154 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
156 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
157 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
161 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
163 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
164 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
169 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
171 * Typo, Closes: #114135
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
175 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
177 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
178 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
182 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
184 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
188 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
190 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
192 Also some indentation fixes.
194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
196 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
198 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
199 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
200 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
201 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
202 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
203 Closes: #106514, #85520
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
207 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Typo, Closes: #104405
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
213 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
215 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
219 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
221 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
225 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
231 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
237 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
240 change it in debhelper v4..
242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
244 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
246 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
250 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
252 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
253 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
257 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
259 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
260 is not essential. Closes: #100430
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
264 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
266 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
270 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
272 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
273 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
274 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
275 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
276 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
277 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
278 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
279 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
280 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
281 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
282 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
283 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
284 prefixed with ".debhelper")
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
288 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
291 look just like shared libs, but are not.
293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
295 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
297 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
302 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
304 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
305 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
306 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
307 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
308 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
309 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
310 program those options go to. So, for example,
311 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
312 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
313 something complex. Closes: #89311
314 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
318 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
321 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
322 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
323 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
327 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
329 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
330 through loop. Closes: #98598
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
334 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
336 * Missing semi-colon.
337 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
338 this (dh_* should be called, really).
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
342 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
344 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
345 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
346 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
347 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
351 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
353 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
354 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
355 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
359 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
361 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
362 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
366 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
369 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
370 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
374 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
376 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
377 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
378 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
379 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
383 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
386 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
387 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
388 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
392 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
394 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
395 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
399 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
401 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
405 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Typo, Closes: #92407
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
411 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
417 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
423 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
426 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
430 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
432 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
433 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
434 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
435 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
436 followed. Closes: #85483
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
440 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
442 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
443 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
444 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
448 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
450 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
451 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
452 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
453 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
454 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
455 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
456 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
457 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
458 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
459 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
460 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
461 Closes: #88464, #77743
462 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
463 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
464 us to deal with that gracefully.
465 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
467 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
468 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
469 a while, Closes: #51225
471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
473 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
479 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
481 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
482 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
486 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
490 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
495 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
498 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
499 don't make packlist files.
500 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
501 debhelper coding standards.
502 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
503 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
507 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
510 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
514 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
517 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
518 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
519 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
520 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
521 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
522 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
523 but is mildly deprecated.
524 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
525 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
526 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
527 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
528 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
529 switching to statoverrides..
530 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
531 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
532 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
533 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
534 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
535 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
537 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
538 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
539 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
540 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
541 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
542 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
543 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
544 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
545 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
547 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
548 variable names, pod man pages).
549 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
550 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
551 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
552 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
553 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
554 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
555 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
559 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
561 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
565 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
572 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
574 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
575 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
579 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
581 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
582 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
583 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
587 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
589 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
590 they were previously ignored.
592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
594 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
596 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
597 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
601 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
603 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
604 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
605 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
609 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
611 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
615 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
617 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
618 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
622 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
624 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
625 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
626 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
627 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
628 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
629 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
630 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
631 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
632 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
633 it is an obsolete program.
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
637 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
639 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
643 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
645 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
647 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
649 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
653 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
655 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
657 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
659 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
663 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
669 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
671 * typo: Closes, #78567
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
675 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
677 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
681 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
683 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
687 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
689 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
690 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
691 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
692 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
693 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
694 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
698 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
700 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
701 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
706 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
709 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
710 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
711 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
712 backwards-compatability.
714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
716 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
718 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
719 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
720 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
721 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
722 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
723 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
724 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
726 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
727 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
728 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
730 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
732 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
733 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
734 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
735 should now be raised to severity important..
736 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
737 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
741 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
743 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
744 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
749 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Typo, Closes: #77441
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
755 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Completed the fix from the last version.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
761 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
767 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
769 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
774 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
776 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
777 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
778 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
779 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
780 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
784 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
790 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
792 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
793 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
794 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
795 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
796 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
797 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
798 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
803 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
805 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
806 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
810 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
812 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
816 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
819 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
824 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
826 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
827 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
828 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
829 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
830 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
834 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
836 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
838 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
841 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
844 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
845 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
848 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
850 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
851 the TODO entry about it.
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
855 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
862 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
865 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
866 prevent that. Closes: #73052
868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
870 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
872 * Typo, Closes: #72932
873 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
874 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
875 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
876 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
880 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
886 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
888 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
893 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
895 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
896 (this appears to be logal).
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
900 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
902 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
903 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
904 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
905 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
906 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
910 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
916 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
918 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
919 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
920 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
921 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
922 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
926 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
928 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
932 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
935 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
939 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
946 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
949 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
950 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
951 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
956 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
958 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
963 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
965 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
969 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
971 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
972 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
973 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
974 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
975 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
976 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
977 notice until v2 is complete.
978 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
979 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
980 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
981 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
982 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
983 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
985 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
986 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
987 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
988 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
992 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
994 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
998 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1005 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1008 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1012 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1019 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1022 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1023 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1024 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1025 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1030 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1033 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1034 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1035 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1040 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1042 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1043 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1044 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1048 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1051 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1055 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1058 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1060 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1062 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1064 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1069 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1071 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1072 depend on the build and install targets.
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1076 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1079 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1083 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1085 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1090 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1092 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1096 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1102 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1105 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1106 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1107 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1108 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1109 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1110 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1112 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1113 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1114 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1115 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1116 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1117 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1118 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1122 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1128 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1134 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1137 right place. Closes: #55065
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1141 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1148 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1151 * Copyright date updates.
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1155 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1158 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1163 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1169 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1176 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1182 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1188 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1194 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1197 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1198 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1199 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1200 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1201 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1202 bits until all files have been registered.
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1206 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_installmanpages:
1209 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1210 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1211 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1212 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1213 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1214 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1215 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1216 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1217 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1218 otherwise change the result at all.
1220 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1221 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1222 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1223 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1224 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1229 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1235 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1238 act on files that don't exist.
1239 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1240 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1241 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1243 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1244 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1245 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1246 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1250 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1256 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1262 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1265 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1269 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1272 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1274 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1275 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1276 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1280 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1282 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1283 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1284 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1285 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1286 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1287 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1288 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1289 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1291 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1293 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1297 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1299 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1304 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1310 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1316 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1319 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1323 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1329 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1335 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1338 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1339 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1340 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1341 I made some changes, though:
1342 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1343 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1344 that is a clear violation of policy.
1345 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1346 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1347 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1348 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1349 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1350 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1351 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1352 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1353 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1355 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1359 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1365 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1368 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1372 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1375 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1376 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1381 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1387 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1394 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1396 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1397 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1398 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1399 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1400 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1401 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1402 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1403 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1407 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1409 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1413 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1417 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1418 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1422 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1424 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1428 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1431 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1435 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1438 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1439 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1443 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1445 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1450 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1454 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1458 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1461 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1462 for the dependancies to be generated.
1464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1466 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1469 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1473 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1476 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1477 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1478 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1483 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1486 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1487 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1491 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1493 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1503 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1506 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1510 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1516 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1519 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1520 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1521 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1522 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1523 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1524 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1525 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1526 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1527 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1528 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1529 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1530 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1534 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1537 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1538 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1540 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1541 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1542 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1543 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1544 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1545 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1547 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1548 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1552 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1554 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1555 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1559 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1561 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1566 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1569 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1574 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1577 for building debhelper.
1578 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1582 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1589 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1592 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1596 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1598 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1599 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1600 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1601 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1602 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1603 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1604 it's always available.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1608 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1611 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1612 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1613 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1617 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1620 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1621 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1625 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1631 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1634 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1638 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1644 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1647 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1648 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1649 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1653 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1656 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1661 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1664 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1665 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1667 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1668 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1672 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1678 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1684 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1687 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1691 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1694 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1695 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1697 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1701 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1704 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1705 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1706 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1710 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1713 things if CDPATH is set.
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1717 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1723 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1726 seems to make sense for the transition.
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1730 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1733 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1738 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1741 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1742 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1746 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1749 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1753 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1755 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1756 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1757 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1758 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1759 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1763 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1769 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1772 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1773 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1774 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1775 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1776 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1777 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1778 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1779 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1780 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1781 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1786 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1789 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1790 * README: mention doc/v2
1791 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1792 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1796 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1798 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1799 be using this script RSN.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1803 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1806 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1807 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1808 more than 1 init script.
1810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1812 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1814 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1815 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1819 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Changed perl version detection.
1822 * Changed call to find.
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1826 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1829 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1831 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1836 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Really include dh_installpam.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1842 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1845 * Wrote man page for same.
1847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1849 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1851 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1852 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1853 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1858 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1865 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1868 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1869 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1870 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1871 x bit was being set!
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1875 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1878 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1879 well. (Closes: 38900)
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1883 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1886 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1887 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1891 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1897 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1904 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1906 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1910 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1913 help from Julian Gilbey.
1914 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1915 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1916 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1917 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1918 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1919 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1920 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1925 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1931 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1938 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1944 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1950 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1953 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1957 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1960 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1964 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1967 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1971 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1973 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1977 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1980 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1984 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1990 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1996 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1999 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2000 may be deleted. (#35845)
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2004 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Various man page enhancements.
2007 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2012 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2014 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2015 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2016 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2020 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2022 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2023 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2024 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2025 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2027 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2028 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2033 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2039 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * Another very minor typo fix.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2045 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Very minor typo fix.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2051 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2054 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2055 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2059 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2065 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2068 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2069 variables properly (#34850).
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2073 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2079 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2082 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2083 (automatically generated by build process).
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2087 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2089 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2093 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2095 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2096 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2097 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2099 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2103 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2105 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2106 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2110 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * README: minor typo fix.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2116 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2119 leave it at that. :-)
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2123 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2129 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2135 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2138 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2139 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2140 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2144 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2147 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2151 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2154 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2158 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2161 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2162 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2163 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2164 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2168 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2171 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2172 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2173 Craig Small for spotting this.
2175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2177 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2179 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2180 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2181 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2185 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2191 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2194 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2198 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2200 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2201 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2202 working on the last version of debhelper.
2204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2206 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2208 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2209 being made. (#23255)
2211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2213 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2215 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2219 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2222 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2226 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2228 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2229 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2230 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2231 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2232 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2236 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2238 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2239 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2240 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2241 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2242 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2244 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2245 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2247 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2252 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2258 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2264 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2267 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2268 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2269 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2270 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2271 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2272 suidregister actually supports it.
2273 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2274 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2278 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2285 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2287 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2288 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2289 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2290 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2291 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2292 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2293 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2294 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2298 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2300 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2301 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2305 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2307 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2308 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2309 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2310 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2311 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2315 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2317 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2318 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2320 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2321 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2322 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2323 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2324 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2325 effect, either. (#30118)
2327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2329 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2331 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2335 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2338 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2339 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2343 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2349 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2352 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2353 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2354 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2355 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2359 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2361 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2362 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2363 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2367 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2373 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2376 packages, painlessly.
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2380 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2386 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2392 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2398 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * The perl conversion is complete.
2402 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2404 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2405 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2406 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2411 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2414 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2415 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2416 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2420 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2422 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2423 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2425 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2427 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2428 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2432 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2435 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2436 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2440 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2446 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2449 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2450 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2451 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2452 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2453 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2457 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2459 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2460 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2461 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2462 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2463 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2467 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2470 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2474 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2476 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2477 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2478 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2479 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2480 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2481 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2482 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2483 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2484 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2488 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2494 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2497 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2498 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2499 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2504 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2507 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2511 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2514 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2518 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2521 sections of shared libraries.
2522 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2523 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2524 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2525 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2526 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2527 things you don't want them to.
2528 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2529 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2533 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2536 shared libraries. (#26414)
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2540 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2542 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2543 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2544 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2545 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2549 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2551 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2553 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2555 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2556 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2557 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2558 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2559 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2563 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2566 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2570 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2573 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2574 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2579 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2581 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2582 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2586 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2589 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2590 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2591 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2592 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2593 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2595 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2596 remove debian/files properly.
2597 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2598 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2599 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2600 * Removed bogus menu file.
2602 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2604 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2607 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2611 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2614 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2615 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2616 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2617 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2618 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2619 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2623 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2625 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2626 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2627 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2628 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2629 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2633 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2638 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2640 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2642 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2643 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2644 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2646 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2647 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2648 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2649 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2650 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2651 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2655 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2658 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2659 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2660 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2661 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2662 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2663 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2664 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2665 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2666 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2667 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2668 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2669 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2670 passed any switches.
2671 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2675 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2678 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2679 at all for a long while.
2680 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2681 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2682 large chunks in the process.
2683 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2684 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2685 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2690 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2693 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2695 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2700 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2703 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2704 that don't always have the same files in them.
2705 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2706 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2707 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2711 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2713 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2715 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2716 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2717 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2718 updating 27 man pages.
2719 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2720 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2721 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2722 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2723 programs act on. (#25247)
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2727 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2731 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2732 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2733 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2734 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2735 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2736 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2741 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2748 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2755 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2758 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2762 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2768 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2771 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2772 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2773 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2774 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2775 package by accident.
2776 * Is version 1.0 next?
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2780 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2783 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2784 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2788 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2791 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2792 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2793 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2794 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2795 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2797 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2802 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2805 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2806 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2810 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2813 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2817 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2820 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2821 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2826 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2832 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2835 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2836 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2841 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2847 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2850 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2851 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2852 past week. Thanks, guys!
2854 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2855 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2856 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2857 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2858 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2859 would do in the same situation.
2860 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2861 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2863 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2865 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2866 permissions changed.
2867 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2868 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2869 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2870 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2871 files are treated identically.
2872 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2873 * Minor man page fixes.
2874 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2875 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2876 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2880 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2883 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2884 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2885 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2886 use -X multiple times, too.
2887 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2888 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2892 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2895 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2896 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2900 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2903 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2907 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2910 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2911 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2912 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2913 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2914 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2915 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2916 shape if you're starting a new package.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2920 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2923 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2927 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2930 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2931 because of missing symlinks.
2933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2935 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2937 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2941 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2944 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2945 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2946 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2947 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2948 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2950 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2951 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2955 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2957 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2958 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2959 to be changed after the fact :-)
2960 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2964 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2966 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2967 no version string after the -V.
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2971 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2973 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2974 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2977 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2979 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2981 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2982 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2986 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2989 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2990 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2991 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2992 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2993 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2994 I always welcome corrections!
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2998 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3004 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3007 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3008 * Documented this new switch.
3010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3012 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3014 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3015 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3016 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3017 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3018 no packages use the old behavior.
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3022 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3025 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3026 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3030 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3033 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3037 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3043 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3046 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3050 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3052 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3053 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3054 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3055 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3059 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3065 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3068 into the source package by accident.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3072 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3075 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3076 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3077 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3078 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3079 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3080 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3085 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3089 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3090 inspired to implement some of it.
3091 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3095 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3098 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3102 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3105 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3106 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3110 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3112 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3113 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3114 have done.) (#17598)
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3118 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3124 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3130 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3133 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3137 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3140 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3141 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3145 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3147 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3148 argument processor in perl.
3149 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3150 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3151 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3152 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3156 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3159 type directories. (#16933)
3160 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3161 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3162 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3163 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3164 are supported. (#16935)
3165 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3170 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3173 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3177 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3181 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3182 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3183 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3184 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3185 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3186 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3190 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3193 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3194 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3196 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3197 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3198 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3199 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3200 a given package, or -i or -a.
3201 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3202 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3203 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3204 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3205 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3206 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3207 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3208 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3209 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3211 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3212 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3213 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3217 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3219 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3220 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3221 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3226 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3229 does not have a section.
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3233 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3236 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3237 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3238 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3242 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * Fixed typo #16215.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3248 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3251 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3252 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3253 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3254 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3255 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3260 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3262 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3263 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3264 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3265 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3270 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3276 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3282 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3285 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3286 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3287 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3288 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3289 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3290 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3294 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3296 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3300 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3303 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3307 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3309 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3310 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3311 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3312 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3316 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3319 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3323 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3329 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3332 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3336 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3339 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3343 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3349 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3352 postinst, postrm, etc.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3356 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3362 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3365 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3366 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3367 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3368 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3369 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3373 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3376 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3377 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3381 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3383 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3384 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3388 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3391 installing package files into.
3392 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3397 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3399 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3401 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3405 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3411 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3414 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3418 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3420 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3421 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3422 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3423 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3424 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3428 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3430 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3431 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3432 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3433 multiple binary packages.
3434 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3435 should rebuild them with this version.
3436 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3440 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3443 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3447 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3449 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3450 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3454 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3456 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3457 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3458 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3459 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3460 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3461 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3462 debian/README.debian.
3463 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3464 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3465 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3466 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3467 in a few situations.)
3469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3471 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3473 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3477 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3483 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3486 * Fixed several man pages.
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3490 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3493 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3494 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3498 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3501 is ready for general use.
3502 * Added man pages for all commands.
3503 * Multiple binary package support.
3504 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3505 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3506 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3508 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3509 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3510 auto-installed as parameters.
3511 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3513 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3516 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3517 the package build directory it is to act on.
3518 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3519 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3520 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3524 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3526 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3527 ready to replace debstd.
3529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400