1 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
5 this (dh_* should be called, really).
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
9 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
11 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
12 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
13 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
14 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
18 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
20 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
21 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
22 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
26 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
29 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
33 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
36 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
37 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
39 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
41 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
43 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
44 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
45 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
46 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
50 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
53 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
54 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
55 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
57 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
59 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
61 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
62 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
64 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
66 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
68 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
72 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Typo, Closes: #92407
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
78 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
82 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
84 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
86 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
90 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
93 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
97 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
100 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
101 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
102 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
103 followed. Closes: #85483
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
107 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
109 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
110 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
111 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
115 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
118 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
119 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
120 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
121 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
122 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
123 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
124 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
125 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
126 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
127 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
128 Closes: #88464, #77743
129 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
130 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
131 us to deal with that gracefully.
132 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
134 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
135 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
136 a while, Closes: #51225
138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
140 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
146 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
148 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
149 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
153 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
157 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
162 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
165 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
166 don't make packlist files.
167 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
168 debhelper coding standards.
169 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
170 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
174 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
177 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
181 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
184 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
185 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
186 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
187 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
188 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
189 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
190 but is mildly deprecated.
191 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
192 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
193 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
194 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
195 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
196 switching to statoverrides..
197 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
198 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
199 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
200 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
201 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
202 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
204 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
205 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
206 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
207 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
208 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
209 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
210 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
211 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
212 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
214 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
215 variable names, pod man pages).
216 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
217 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
218 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
219 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
220 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
221 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
222 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
226 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
228 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
232 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
239 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
241 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
242 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
246 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
248 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
249 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
250 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
254 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
256 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
257 they were previously ignored.
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
261 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
263 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
264 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
268 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
270 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
271 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
272 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
276 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
278 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
282 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
284 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
285 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
289 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
291 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
292 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
293 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
294 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
295 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
296 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
297 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
298 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
299 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
300 it is an obsolete program.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
304 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
306 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
310 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
312 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
314 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
316 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
320 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
322 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
324 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
326 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
330 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
336 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
338 * typo: Closes, #78567
340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
342 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
344 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
348 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
354 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
356 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
357 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
358 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
359 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
360 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
361 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
365 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
367 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
368 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
373 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
375 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
376 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
377 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
378 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
379 backwards-compatability.
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
383 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
385 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
386 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
387 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
388 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
389 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
390 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
391 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
393 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
394 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
395 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
397 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
399 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
400 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
401 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
402 should now be raised to severity important..
403 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
404 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
408 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
411 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
416 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Typo, Closes: #77441
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
422 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
424 * Completed the fix from the last version.
426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
428 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
430 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
434 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
436 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
441 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
443 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
444 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
445 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
446 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
447 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
451 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
457 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
459 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
460 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
461 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
462 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
463 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
464 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
465 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
470 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
472 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
473 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
477 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
479 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
483 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
485 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
486 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
491 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
493 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
494 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
495 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
496 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
497 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
501 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
503 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
505 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
508 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
510 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
511 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
512 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
515 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
517 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
518 the TODO entry about it.
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
522 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
524 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
529 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
531 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
532 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
533 prevent that. Closes: #73052
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
537 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
539 * Typo, Closes: #72932
540 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
541 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
542 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
543 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
547 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
553 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
560 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
563 (this appears to be logal).
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
567 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
570 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
571 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
572 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
573 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
577 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
583 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
585 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
586 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
587 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
588 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
589 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
593 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
595 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
599 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
601 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
602 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
606 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
613 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
615 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
616 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
617 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
618 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
623 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
625 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
630 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
636 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
638 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
639 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
640 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
641 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
642 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
643 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
644 notice until v2 is complete.
645 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
646 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
647 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
648 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
649 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
650 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
652 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
653 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
654 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
655 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
659 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
661 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
665 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
672 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
674 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
675 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
679 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
681 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
686 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
688 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
689 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
690 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
691 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
692 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
697 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
700 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
701 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
702 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
707 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
710 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
711 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
715 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
717 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
718 just skip files that end in -\d+.
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
722 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
724 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
725 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
729 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
731 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
736 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
738 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
739 depend on the build and install targets.
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
743 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
746 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
750 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
757 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
763 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
769 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
771 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
772 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
773 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
774 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
775 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
776 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
777 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
779 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
780 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
781 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
782 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
783 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
784 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
785 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
789 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
791 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
795 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
801 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
803 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
804 right place. Closes: #55065
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
808 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
810 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
815 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Make all examples rules files executable.
818 * Copyright date updates.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
822 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
824 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
825 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
830 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
836 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
838 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
843 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
845 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
849 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
851 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
855 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
857 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
861 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
864 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
865 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
866 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
867 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
868 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
869 bits until all files have been registered.
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
873 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
875 * dh_installmanpages:
876 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
877 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
878 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
879 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
880 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
881 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
882 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
883 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
884 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
885 otherwise change the result at all.
887 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
888 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
889 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
890 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
891 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
896 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
902 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
904 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
905 act on files that don't exist.
906 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
907 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
908 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
910 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
911 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
912 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
913 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
917 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
919 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
921 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
923 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
929 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
932 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
936 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
939 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
941 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
942 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
943 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
947 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
949 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
950 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
951 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
952 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
953 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
954 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
955 does not compress. Closes: #41733
956 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
958 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
960 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
964 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
966 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
971 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
973 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
977 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
979 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
983 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
985 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
986 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
990 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
992 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
996 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
998 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1002 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1005 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1006 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1007 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1008 I made some changes, though:
1009 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1010 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1011 that is a clear violation of policy.
1012 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1013 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1014 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1015 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1016 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1017 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1018 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1019 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1020 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1022 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1026 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1032 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1035 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1039 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1042 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1043 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1048 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1054 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1061 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1064 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1065 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1066 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1067 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1068 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1069 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1070 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1074 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1080 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1084 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1085 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1089 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1095 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1097 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1098 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1102 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1105 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1106 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1110 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1112 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1117 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1121 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1125 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1127 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1128 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1129 for the dependancies to be generated.
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1133 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1136 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1140 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1143 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1144 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1145 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1150 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1152 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1153 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1154 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1158 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1164 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1170 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1172 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1173 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1177 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1183 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1186 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1187 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1188 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1189 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1190 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1191 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1192 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1193 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1194 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1195 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1196 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1197 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1201 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1204 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1205 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1207 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1208 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1209 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1210 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1211 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1212 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1214 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1215 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1219 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1222 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1226 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1233 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1235 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1236 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1241 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1244 for building debhelper.
1245 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1249 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1251 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1256 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1259 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1263 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1266 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1267 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1268 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1269 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1270 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1271 it's always available.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1275 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1278 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1279 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1280 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1284 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1286 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1287 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1288 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1292 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1298 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1301 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1305 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1311 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1313 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1314 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1315 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1316 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1320 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1323 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1328 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1330 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1331 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1332 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1334 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1335 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1339 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1345 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1347 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1351 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1353 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1354 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1358 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1360 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1361 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1362 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1364 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1368 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1371 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1372 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1373 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1377 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1379 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1380 things if CDPATH is set.
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1384 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1390 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1392 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1393 seems to make sense for the transition.
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1397 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1400 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1405 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1408 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1409 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1413 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1416 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1420 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1423 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1424 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1425 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1426 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1428 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1430 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1432 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1436 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1439 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1440 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1441 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1442 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1443 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1444 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1445 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1446 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1447 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1448 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1453 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1456 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1457 * README: mention doc/v2
1458 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1459 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1463 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1465 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1466 be using this script RSN.
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1470 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1473 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1474 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1475 more than 1 init script.
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1479 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1482 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1486 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * Changed perl version detection.
1489 * Changed call to find.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1493 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1496 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1498 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1503 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Really include dh_installpam.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1509 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1512 * Wrote man page for same.
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1516 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1519 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1520 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1525 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1527 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1532 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1535 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1536 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1537 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1538 x bit was being set!
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1542 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1545 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1546 well. (Closes: 38900)
1548 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1550 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1552 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1553 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1554 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1558 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1564 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1566 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1571 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1573 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1577 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1580 help from Julian Gilbey.
1581 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1582 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1583 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1584 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1585 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1586 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1587 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1592 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1598 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1600 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1605 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1611 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1617 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1620 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1624 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1626 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1627 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1631 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1634 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1638 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1640 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1644 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1647 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1651 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1657 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1659 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1663 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1665 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1666 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1667 may be deleted. (#35845)
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1671 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Various man page enhancements.
1674 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1679 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1682 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1683 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1687 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1690 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1691 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1692 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1694 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1695 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1700 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1702 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1706 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * Another very minor typo fix.
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1712 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Very minor typo fix.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1718 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1721 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1722 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1726 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1732 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1735 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1736 variables properly (#34850).
1738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1740 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1742 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1746 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1748 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1749 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1750 (automatically generated by build process).
1752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1754 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1756 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1758 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1760 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1762 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1763 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1764 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1766 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1770 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1773 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1777 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1779 * README: minor typo fix.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1783 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1786 leave it at that. :-)
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1790 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1796 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1802 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1805 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1806 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1807 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1811 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1814 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1818 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1821 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1825 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1828 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1829 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1830 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1831 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1835 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1838 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1839 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1840 Craig Small for spotting this.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1844 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1847 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1848 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1852 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1858 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1860 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1861 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1865 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1867 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1868 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1869 working on the last version of debhelper.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1873 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1876 being made. (#23255)
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1880 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1886 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1889 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1893 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1896 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1897 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1898 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1899 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1903 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1906 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1907 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1908 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1909 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1911 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1912 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1914 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
1919 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
1925 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
1931 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
1934 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
1935 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
1936 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
1937 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
1938 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
1939 suidregister actually supports it.
1940 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
1941 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
1945 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
1950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
1952 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
1955 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
1956 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
1957 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
1958 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
1959 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
1960 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
1961 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
1965 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1967 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
1968 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
1972 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
1975 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
1976 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
1977 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
1978 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
1980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
1982 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
1984 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
1985 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
1987 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
1988 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
1989 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
1990 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
1991 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
1992 effect, either. (#30118)
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
1996 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2002 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2005 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2006 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2010 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2016 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2019 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2020 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2021 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2022 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2026 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2029 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2030 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2034 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2040 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2043 packages, painlessly.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2047 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2053 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2055 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2059 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2065 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * The perl conversion is complete.
2069 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2071 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2072 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2073 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2078 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2080 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2081 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2082 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2083 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2087 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2090 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2092 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2094 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2095 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2099 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2102 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2103 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2107 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2113 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2116 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2117 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2118 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2119 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2120 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2124 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2127 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2128 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2129 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2130 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2134 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2136 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2137 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2141 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2144 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2145 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2146 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2147 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2148 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2149 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2150 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2151 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2155 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2161 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2164 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2165 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2166 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2171 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2174 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2178 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2181 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2185 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2187 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2188 sections of shared libraries.
2189 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2190 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2191 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2192 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2193 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2194 things you don't want them to.
2195 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2196 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2200 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2203 shared libraries. (#26414)
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2207 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2209 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2210 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2211 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2212 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2216 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2220 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2222 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2223 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2224 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2225 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2226 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2230 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2233 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2237 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2240 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2241 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2246 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2248 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2249 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2253 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2255 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2256 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2257 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2258 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2259 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2260 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2262 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2263 remove debian/files properly.
2264 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2265 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2266 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2267 * Removed bogus menu file.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2271 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2274 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2278 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2281 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2282 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2283 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2284 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2285 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2286 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2290 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2293 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2294 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2295 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2296 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2300 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2307 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2309 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2310 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2311 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2313 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2314 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2315 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2316 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2317 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2318 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2322 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2324 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2325 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2326 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2327 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2328 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2329 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2330 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2331 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2332 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2333 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2334 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2335 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2336 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2337 passed any switches.
2338 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2342 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2345 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2346 at all for a long while.
2347 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2348 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2349 large chunks in the process.
2350 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2351 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2352 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2357 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2360 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2362 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2367 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2369 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2370 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2371 that don't always have the same files in them.
2372 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2373 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2374 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2378 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2380 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2382 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2383 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2384 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2385 updating 27 man pages.
2386 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2387 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2388 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2389 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2390 programs act on. (#25247)
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2394 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2398 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2399 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2400 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2401 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2402 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2403 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2408 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2415 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2422 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2424 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2425 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2429 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2431 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2435 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2438 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2439 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2440 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2441 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2442 package by accident.
2443 * Is version 1.0 next?
2445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2447 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2449 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2450 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2451 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2455 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2458 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2459 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2460 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2461 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2462 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2464 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2469 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2471 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2472 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2473 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2477 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2480 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2484 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2487 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2488 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2493 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2495 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2499 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2502 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2503 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2508 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2514 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2516 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2517 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2518 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2519 past week. Thanks, guys!
2521 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2522 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2523 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2524 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2525 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2526 would do in the same situation.
2527 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2528 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2530 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2532 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2533 permissions changed.
2534 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2535 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2536 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2537 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2538 files are treated identically.
2539 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2540 * Minor man page fixes.
2541 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2542 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2543 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2547 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2550 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2551 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2552 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2553 use -X multiple times, too.
2554 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2555 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2559 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2562 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2563 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2567 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2570 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2574 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2576 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2577 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2578 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2579 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2580 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2581 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2582 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2583 shape if you're starting a new package.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2587 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2590 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2594 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2597 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2598 because of missing symlinks.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2602 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2608 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2611 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2612 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2613 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2614 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2615 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2617 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2618 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2622 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2624 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2625 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2626 to be changed after the fact :-)
2627 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2631 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2634 no version string after the -V.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2638 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2640 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2641 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2646 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2649 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2653 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2656 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2657 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2658 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2659 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2660 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2661 I always welcome corrections!
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2665 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2671 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2674 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2675 * Documented this new switch.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2679 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2682 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2683 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2684 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2685 no packages use the old behavior.
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2689 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2692 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2693 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2697 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2700 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2704 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2710 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2713 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2717 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2720 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2721 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2722 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2726 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2732 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2735 into the source package by accident.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2739 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2742 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2743 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2744 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2745 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2746 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2747 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2752 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2756 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2757 inspired to implement some of it.
2758 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2762 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2765 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2769 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2772 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2773 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2777 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2780 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2781 have done.) (#17598)
2783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2785 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2787 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2791 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2797 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2799 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2800 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2802 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2804 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2806 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2807 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2808 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2812 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2815 argument processor in perl.
2816 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2817 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2818 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2819 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2823 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2826 type directories. (#16933)
2827 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2828 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2829 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2830 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2831 are supported. (#16935)
2832 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2837 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2840 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2844 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2848 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2849 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2850 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2851 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2852 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2853 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2857 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2860 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2861 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2863 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2864 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2865 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2866 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2867 a given package, or -i or -a.
2868 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2869 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2870 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2871 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2872 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2873 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2874 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2875 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2876 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2878 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2879 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2880 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2884 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2887 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2888 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2893 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2895 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2896 does not have a section.
2898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2900 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2902 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2903 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2904 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2905 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2909 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * Fixed typo #16215.
2913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2915 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
2917 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
2918 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
2919 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
2920 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
2921 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
2922 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
2927 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
2930 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
2931 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
2932 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
2937 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
2943 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
2949 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
2952 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
2953 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
2954 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
2955 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
2956 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
2957 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
2961 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
2965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
2967 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2969 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
2970 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
2974 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
2977 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
2978 the dh_* programs (#15497).
2979 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
2983 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
2986 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
2988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
2990 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2992 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
2994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
2996 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2998 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
2999 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3003 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3006 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3010 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3016 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3018 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3019 postinst, postrm, etc.
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3023 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3029 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3031 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3032 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3033 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3034 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3035 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3036 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3040 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3043 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3044 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3048 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3050 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3051 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3055 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3057 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3058 installing package files into.
3059 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3064 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3068 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3072 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3078 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3081 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3085 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3088 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3089 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3090 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3091 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3095 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3097 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3098 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3099 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3100 multiple binary packages.
3101 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3102 should rebuild them with this version.
3103 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3107 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3110 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3114 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3117 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3121 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3123 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3124 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3125 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3126 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3127 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3128 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3129 debian/README.debian.
3130 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3131 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3132 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3133 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3134 in a few situations.)
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3138 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3144 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3150 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3153 * Fixed several man pages.
3155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3157 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3159 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3160 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3161 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3165 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3168 is ready for general use.
3169 * Added man pages for all commands.
3170 * Multiple binary package support.
3171 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3172 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3173 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3175 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3176 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3177 auto-installed as parameters.
3178 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3180 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3183 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3184 the package build directory it is to act on.
3185 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3186 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3187 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3191 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3193 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3194 ready to replace debstd.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400