1 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
4 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
5 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
6 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
7 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
10 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
12 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
14 * Typo, Closes: #155323
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
18 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
20 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
25 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
28 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
29 * Removed dh_installxaw.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
33 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
36 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
37 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
38 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
39 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
40 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
44 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
47 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
49 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
54 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
56 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
57 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
61 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
64 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
65 right thing. Closes: #150644
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
69 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
72 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
76 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
78 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
83 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
85 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
86 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
87 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
92 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
98 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
101 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
105 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
107 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
108 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
109 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
114 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
117 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
121 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
123 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
127 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
130 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
131 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
135 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
137 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
141 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
143 * Removing perl warning message.
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
147 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
150 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
151 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
152 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
153 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
154 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
155 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
156 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
157 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
161 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
163 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
167 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
174 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
177 debconf-mergetemplate.
178 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
179 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
183 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
186 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
187 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
188 dh_install, which ...
189 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
190 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
191 mess, as it uses debian/install.
192 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
193 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
194 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
195 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
196 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
197 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
198 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
199 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
200 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
201 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
202 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
204 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
205 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
206 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
207 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
208 course there's -X ..)
209 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
210 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
211 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
213 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
214 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
215 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
216 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
217 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
222 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
224 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
228 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
230 * Typo, Closes: #139176
231 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
235 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
237 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
241 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
243 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
247 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
253 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
255 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
259 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
261 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
262 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
263 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
264 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
265 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
267 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
268 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
272 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
274 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
278 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
280 * Typo, Closes: #132454
281 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
285 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
287 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
288 upset. Closes: #131322
290 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
292 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
294 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
295 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
296 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
297 line, as well as in debian/rules.
298 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
299 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
300 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
301 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
302 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
303 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
304 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
305 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
306 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
307 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
308 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
309 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
311 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
315 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
317 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
318 - Better indenting of generated code.
319 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
323 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
327 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
328 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
329 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
330 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
331 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
332 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
333 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
337 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
340 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
344 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
347 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
348 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
349 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
350 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
351 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
352 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
353 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
354 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
355 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
356 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
357 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
358 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
359 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
360 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
361 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
366 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
372 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
374 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
375 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
376 * fixed dh_testdir man page
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
380 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Typo, Closes: #122679
383 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
384 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
388 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
394 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
397 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
398 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
399 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
400 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
401 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
406 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
408 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
412 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
414 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
415 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
419 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
422 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
427 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
429 * Typo, Closes: #114135
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
433 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
435 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
436 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
440 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
446 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
448 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
450 Also some indentation fixes.
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
454 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
456 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
457 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
458 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
459 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
460 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
461 Closes: #106514, #85520
463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
465 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
467 * Typo, Closes: #104405
469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
471 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
473 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
477 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
479 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
483 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
485 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
489 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
491 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
495 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
497 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
498 change it in debhelper v4..
500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
502 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
504 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
508 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
510 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
511 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
515 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
517 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
518 is not essential. Closes: #100430
520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
522 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
524 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
528 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
530 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
531 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
532 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
533 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
534 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
535 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
536 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
537 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
538 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
539 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
540 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
541 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
542 prefixed with ".debhelper")
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
546 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
549 look just like shared libs, but are not.
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
553 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
555 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
560 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
562 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
563 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
564 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
565 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
566 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
567 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
568 program those options go to. So, for example,
569 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
570 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
571 something complex. Closes: #89311
572 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
576 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
579 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
580 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
581 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
585 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
588 through loop. Closes: #98598
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
592 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Missing semi-colon.
595 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
596 this (dh_* should be called, really).
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
600 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
602 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
603 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
604 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
605 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
609 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
612 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
613 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
617 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
619 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
620 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
624 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
626 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
627 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
628 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
632 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
634 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
635 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
636 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
637 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
641 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
643 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
644 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
645 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
646 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
650 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
652 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
653 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
657 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
663 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Typo, Closes: #92407
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
669 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
671 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
675 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
677 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
681 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
684 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
688 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
691 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
692 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
693 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
694 followed. Closes: #85483
696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
698 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
700 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
701 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
702 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
706 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
709 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
710 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
711 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
712 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
713 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
714 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
715 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
716 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
717 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
718 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
719 Closes: #88464, #77743
720 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
721 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
722 us to deal with that gracefully.
723 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
725 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
726 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
727 a while, Closes: #51225
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
731 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
737 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
739 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
740 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
744 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
746 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
748 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
753 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
755 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
756 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
757 don't make packlist files.
758 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
759 debhelper coding standards.
760 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
761 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
765 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
767 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
768 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
772 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
775 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
776 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
777 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
778 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
779 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
780 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
781 but is mildly deprecated.
782 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
783 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
784 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
785 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
786 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
787 switching to statoverrides..
788 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
789 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
790 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
791 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
792 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
793 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
795 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
796 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
797 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
798 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
799 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
800 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
801 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
802 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
803 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
805 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
806 variable names, pod man pages).
807 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
808 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
809 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
810 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
811 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
812 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
813 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
817 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
819 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
823 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
825 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
830 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
833 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
837 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
839 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
840 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
841 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
845 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
847 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
848 they were previously ignored.
850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
852 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
854 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
855 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
859 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
861 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
862 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
863 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
867 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
869 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
873 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
875 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
876 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
880 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
882 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
883 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
884 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
885 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
886 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
887 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
888 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
889 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
890 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
891 it is an obsolete program.
893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
895 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
897 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
901 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
903 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
905 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
907 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
909 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
911 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
913 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
915 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
917 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
921 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
927 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
929 * typo: Closes, #78567
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
933 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
939 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
945 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
947 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
948 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
949 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
950 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
951 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
952 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
956 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
958 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
959 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
964 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
966 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
967 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
968 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
969 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
970 backwards-compatability.
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
974 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
976 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
977 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
978 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
979 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
980 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
981 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
982 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
984 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
985 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
986 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
988 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
990 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
991 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
992 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
993 should now be raised to severity important..
994 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
995 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
999 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1002 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1007 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1013 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1019 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1021 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1025 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1032 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1035 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1036 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1037 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1038 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1042 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1048 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1051 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1052 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1053 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1054 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1055 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1056 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1061 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1064 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1068 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1074 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1077 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1082 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1085 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1086 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1087 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1088 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1092 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1096 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1099 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1101 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1102 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1103 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1106 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1108 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1109 the TODO entry about it.
1111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1113 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1115 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1120 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1122 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1123 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1124 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1128 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1131 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1132 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1133 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1134 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1138 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1144 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1151 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1154 (this appears to be logal).
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1158 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1161 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1162 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1163 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1164 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1168 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1174 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1176 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1177 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1178 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1179 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1180 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1184 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1190 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1193 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1197 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1204 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1207 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1208 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1209 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1214 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1216 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1219 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1221 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1223 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1227 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1230 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1231 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1232 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1233 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1234 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1235 notice until v2 is complete.
1236 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1237 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1238 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1239 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1240 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1241 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1243 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1244 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1245 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1246 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1250 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1256 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1263 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1265 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1266 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1270 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1272 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1277 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1280 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1281 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1282 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1283 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1288 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1291 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1292 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1293 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1298 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1301 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1302 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1306 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1308 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1309 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1313 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1315 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1316 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1320 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1327 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1330 depend on the build and install targets.
1332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1334 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1337 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1341 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1348 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1354 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1360 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1362 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1363 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1364 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1365 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1366 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1367 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1368 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1370 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1371 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1372 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1373 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1374 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1375 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1376 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1380 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1386 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1392 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1395 right place. Closes: #55065
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1399 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1406 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1409 * Copyright date updates.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1413 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1416 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1421 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1427 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1434 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1440 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1446 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1448 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1452 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1455 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1456 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1457 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1458 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1459 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1460 bits until all files have been registered.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1464 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * dh_installmanpages:
1467 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1468 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1469 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1470 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1471 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1472 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1473 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1474 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1475 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1476 otherwise change the result at all.
1478 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1479 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1480 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1481 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1482 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1487 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1489 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1493 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1496 act on files that don't exist.
1497 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1498 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1499 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1501 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1502 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1503 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1504 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1508 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1514 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1520 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1523 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1527 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1530 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1532 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1533 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1534 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1538 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1540 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1541 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1542 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1543 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1544 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1545 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1546 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1547 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1549 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1551 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1555 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1562 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1568 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1574 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1576 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1577 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1581 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1583 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1587 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1593 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1596 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1597 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1598 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1599 I made some changes, though:
1600 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1601 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1602 that is a clear violation of policy.
1603 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1604 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1605 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1606 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1607 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1608 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1609 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1610 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1611 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1613 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1617 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1619 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1623 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1626 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1630 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1632 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1633 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1634 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1639 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1645 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1652 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1655 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1656 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1657 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1658 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1659 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1660 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1661 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1665 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1671 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1675 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1676 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1680 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1682 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1686 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1689 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1693 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1695 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1696 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1697 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1701 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1703 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1708 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1712 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1716 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1719 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1720 for the dependancies to be generated.
1722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1724 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1726 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1727 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1731 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1734 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1735 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1736 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1741 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1744 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1745 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1749 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1755 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1761 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1763 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1764 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1768 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1770 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1774 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1777 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1778 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1779 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1780 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1781 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1782 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1783 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1784 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1785 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1786 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1787 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1788 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1792 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1795 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1796 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1798 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1799 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1800 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1801 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1802 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1803 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1805 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1806 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1810 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1813 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1817 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1819 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1824 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1827 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1832 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1835 for building debhelper.
1836 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1840 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1842 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1847 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1850 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1854 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1857 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1858 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1859 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1860 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1861 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1862 it's always available.
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1866 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1869 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1870 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1871 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1875 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1878 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1879 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1883 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1889 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1892 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1896 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1898 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1902 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1905 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1906 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1907 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1911 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1914 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1919 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1922 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1923 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1925 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1926 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1930 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1932 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1936 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1942 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1945 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1949 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1952 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1953 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1955 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1959 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1961 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1962 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1963 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1964 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1968 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1970 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1971 things if CDPATH is set.
1973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1975 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1977 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1981 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1984 seems to make sense for the transition.
1986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1988 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1990 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1991 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1996 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1999 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2000 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2004 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2006 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2007 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2011 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2014 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2015 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2016 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2017 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2021 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2027 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2029 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2030 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2031 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2032 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2033 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2034 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2035 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2036 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2037 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2038 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2039 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2044 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2046 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2047 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2048 * README: mention doc/v2
2049 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2050 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2054 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2056 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2057 be using this script RSN.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2061 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2064 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2065 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2066 more than 1 init script.
2068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2070 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2072 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2073 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2077 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2079 * Changed perl version detection.
2080 * Changed call to find.
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2084 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2087 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2089 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2094 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Really include dh_installpam.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2100 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2103 * Wrote man page for same.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2107 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2110 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2111 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2116 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2123 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2126 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2127 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2128 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2129 x bit was being set!
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2133 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2136 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2137 well. (Closes: 38900)
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2141 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2144 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2145 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2149 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2155 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2162 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2168 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2170 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2171 help from Julian Gilbey.
2172 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2173 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2174 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2175 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2176 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2177 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2178 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2183 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2189 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2196 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2202 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2208 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2211 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2215 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2218 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2222 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2224 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2225 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2229 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2231 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2235 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2238 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2242 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2248 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2250 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2254 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2257 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2258 may be deleted. (#35845)
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2262 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * Various man page enhancements.
2265 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2270 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2273 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2274 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2278 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2281 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2282 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2283 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2285 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2286 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2291 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2297 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2299 * Another very minor typo fix.
2301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2303 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2305 * Very minor typo fix.
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2309 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2312 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2313 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2317 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2319 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2323 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2325 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2326 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2327 variables properly (#34850).
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2331 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2337 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2340 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2341 (automatically generated by build process).
2343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2345 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2347 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2351 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2354 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2355 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2357 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2361 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2364 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2368 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * README: minor typo fix.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2374 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2377 leave it at that. :-)
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2381 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2387 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2389 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2393 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2396 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2397 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2398 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2402 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2405 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2409 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2411 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2412 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2416 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2419 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2420 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2421 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2422 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2426 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2429 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2430 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2431 Craig Small for spotting this.
2433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2435 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2437 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2438 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2439 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2443 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2449 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2452 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2456 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2458 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2459 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2460 working on the last version of debhelper.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2464 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2466 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2467 being made. (#23255)
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2471 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2477 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2479 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2480 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2484 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2486 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2487 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2488 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2489 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2490 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2494 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2497 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2498 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2499 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2500 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2502 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2503 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2505 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2510 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2516 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2518 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2522 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2525 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2526 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2527 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2528 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2529 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2530 suidregister actually supports it.
2531 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2532 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2534 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2536 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2538 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2543 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2546 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2547 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2548 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2549 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2550 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2551 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2552 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2556 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2558 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2559 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2563 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2566 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2567 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2568 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2569 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2573 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2576 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2578 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2579 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2580 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2581 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2582 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2583 effect, either. (#30118)
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2587 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2593 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2595 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2596 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2597 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2601 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2603 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2607 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2609 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2610 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2611 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2612 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2613 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2617 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2620 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2621 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2625 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2627 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2631 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2634 packages, painlessly.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2638 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2644 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2650 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2656 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * The perl conversion is complete.
2660 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2662 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2663 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2664 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2669 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2671 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2672 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2673 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2674 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2678 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2681 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2683 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2685 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2686 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2690 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2693 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2694 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2698 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2704 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2707 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2708 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2709 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2710 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2711 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2715 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2717 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2718 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2719 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2720 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2721 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2725 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2727 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2728 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2732 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2735 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2736 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2737 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2738 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2739 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2740 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2741 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2742 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2746 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2748 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2752 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2755 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2756 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2757 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2762 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2765 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2769 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2772 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2776 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2779 sections of shared libraries.
2780 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2781 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2782 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2783 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2784 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2785 things you don't want them to.
2786 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2787 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2791 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2793 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2794 shared libraries. (#26414)
2796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2798 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2800 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2801 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2802 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2803 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2807 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2811 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2813 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2814 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2815 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2816 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2817 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2821 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2824 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2828 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2831 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2832 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2837 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2840 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2844 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2847 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2848 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2849 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2850 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2851 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2853 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2854 remove debian/files properly.
2855 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2856 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2857 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2858 * Removed bogus menu file.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2862 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2865 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2869 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2872 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2873 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2874 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2875 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2876 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2877 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2881 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2884 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2885 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2886 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2887 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2891 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2898 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2901 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2902 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2904 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2905 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2906 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2907 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2908 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2909 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2913 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2916 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2917 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2918 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2919 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2920 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2921 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2922 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2923 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2924 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2925 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2926 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2927 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2928 passed any switches.
2929 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2933 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2936 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2937 at all for a long while.
2938 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2939 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2940 large chunks in the process.
2941 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2942 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2943 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2948 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2950 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2951 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2953 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2958 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2961 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2962 that don't always have the same files in them.
2963 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2964 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2965 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2969 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2973 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2974 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2975 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2976 updating 27 man pages.
2977 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2978 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2979 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2980 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2981 programs act on. (#25247)
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2985 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2989 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2990 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2991 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2992 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2993 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2994 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2999 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3006 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3008 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3013 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3015 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3016 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3020 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3026 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3028 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3029 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3030 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3031 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3032 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3033 package by accident.
3034 * Is version 1.0 next?
3036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3038 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3040 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3041 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3042 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3046 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3049 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3050 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3051 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3052 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3053 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3055 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3060 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3063 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3064 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3068 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3070 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3071 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3075 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3078 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3079 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3084 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3086 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3090 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3093 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3094 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3099 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3105 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3108 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3109 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3110 past week. Thanks, guys!
3112 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3113 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3114 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3115 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3116 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3117 would do in the same situation.
3118 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3119 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3121 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3123 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3124 permissions changed.
3125 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3126 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3127 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3128 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3129 files are treated identically.
3130 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3131 * Minor man page fixes.
3132 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3133 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3134 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3138 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3140 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3141 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3142 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3143 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3144 use -X multiple times, too.
3145 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3146 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3150 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3153 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3154 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3158 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3160 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3161 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3165 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3168 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3169 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3170 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3171 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3172 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3173 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3174 shape if you're starting a new package.
3176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3178 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3180 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3181 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3185 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3187 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3188 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3189 because of missing symlinks.
3191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3193 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3195 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3199 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3201 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3202 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3203 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3204 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3205 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3206 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3208 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3209 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3213 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3215 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3216 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3217 to be changed after the fact :-)
3218 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3222 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3225 no version string after the -V.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3229 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3231 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3232 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3237 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3240 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3244 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3246 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3247 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3248 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3249 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3250 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3251 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3252 I always welcome corrections!
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3256 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3262 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3264 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3265 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3266 * Documented this new switch.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3270 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3273 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3274 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3275 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3276 no packages use the old behavior.
3278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3280 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3282 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3283 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3284 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3288 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3291 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3295 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3301 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3303 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3304 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3308 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3311 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3312 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3313 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3317 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3319 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3323 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3325 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3326 into the source package by accident.
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3330 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3333 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3334 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3335 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3336 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3337 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3338 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3343 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3347 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3348 inspired to implement some of it.
3349 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3353 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3355 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3356 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3360 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3362 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3363 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3364 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3368 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3371 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3372 have done.) (#17598)
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3376 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3382 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3384 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3388 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3391 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3395 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3398 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3399 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3403 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3406 argument processor in perl.
3407 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3408 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3409 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3410 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3414 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3416 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3417 type directories. (#16933)
3418 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3419 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3420 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3421 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3422 are supported. (#16935)
3423 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3428 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3431 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3435 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3437 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3439 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3440 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3441 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3442 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3443 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3444 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3448 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3451 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3452 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3454 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3455 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3456 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3457 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3458 a given package, or -i or -a.
3459 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3460 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3461 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3462 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3463 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3464 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3465 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3466 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3467 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3469 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3470 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3471 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3475 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3477 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3478 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3479 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3484 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3486 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3487 does not have a section.
3489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3491 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3493 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3494 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3495 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3496 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3500 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3502 * Fixed typo #16215.
3504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3506 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3508 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3509 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3510 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3511 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3512 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3513 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3518 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3520 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3521 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3522 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3523 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3528 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3534 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3540 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3543 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3544 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3545 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3546 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3547 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3548 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3552 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3554 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3558 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3561 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3565 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3568 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3569 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3570 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3574 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3576 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3577 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3581 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3583 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3587 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3589 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3590 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3594 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3596 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3597 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3601 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3603 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3607 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3610 postinst, postrm, etc.
3612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3614 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3616 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3620 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3623 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3624 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3625 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3626 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3627 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3631 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3633 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3634 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3635 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3639 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3641 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3642 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3646 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3648 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3649 installing package files into.
3650 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3655 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3657 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3659 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3663 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3665 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3669 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3672 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3676 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3679 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3680 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3681 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3682 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3686 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3688 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3689 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3690 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3691 multiple binary packages.
3692 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3693 should rebuild them with this version.
3694 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3698 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3700 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3701 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3705 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3708 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3712 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3714 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3715 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3716 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3717 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3718 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3719 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3720 debian/README.debian.
3721 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3722 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3723 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3724 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3725 in a few situations.)
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3729 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3731 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3735 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3737 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3741 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3743 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3744 * Fixed several man pages.
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3748 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3750 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3751 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3752 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3756 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3758 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3759 is ready for general use.
3760 * Added man pages for all commands.
3761 * Multiple binary package support.
3762 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3763 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3764 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3766 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3767 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3768 auto-installed as parameters.
3769 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3771 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3774 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3775 the package build directory it is to act on.
3776 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3777 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3778 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3782 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3784 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3785 ready to replace debstd.
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400