1 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
4 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
8 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
14 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
16 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
20 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
23 it break hard links (see #188663).
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
27 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
30 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
34 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
40 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
44 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
45 debconf-mergetemplates
47 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
49 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
51 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
52 pod2man. Closes: #184013
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
56 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
58 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
59 * Typo, Closes: #183267
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
63 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
66 * Update debhelper(1).
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
70 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
72 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
73 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
74 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
75 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
76 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
77 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
81 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
83 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
84 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
85 the shell. Closes: #178524
86 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
88 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
90 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
92 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
93 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
97 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
99 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
100 undocumented.7 links anymore.
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
104 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
106 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
107 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
108 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
109 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
110 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
115 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
117 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
118 files from installation.
120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
122 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
124 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
125 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
126 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
130 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
132 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
133 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
137 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
139 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
140 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
144 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
146 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
150 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
156 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
160 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
161 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
163 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
167 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
169 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
170 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
171 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
172 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
173 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
177 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
179 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
180 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
184 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
186 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
187 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
188 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
192 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
194 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
196 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
201 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
203 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
207 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
209 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
211 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
212 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
213 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
218 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
220 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
221 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
222 practice. Closes: #163303
224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
226 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
228 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
232 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
234 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
239 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
241 * The "reverse hangover" release.
242 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
244 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
245 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
246 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
247 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
248 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
252 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
255 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
260 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
262 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
266 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
268 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
273 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
276 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
281 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
283 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
287 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
289 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
293 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
295 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
299 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
301 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
306 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
308 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
309 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
310 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
311 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
312 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
317 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Typo, Closes: #155323
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
323 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
325 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
330 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
332 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
333 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
334 * Removed dh_installxaw.
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
338 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
340 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
341 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
342 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
343 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
344 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
345 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
349 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
351 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
352 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
354 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
359 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
361 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
362 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
366 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
368 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
369 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
370 right thing. Closes: #150644
372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
374 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
377 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
381 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
383 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
388 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
390 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
391 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
392 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
397 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
403 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
405 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
406 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
410 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
413 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
414 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
419 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
422 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
426 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
432 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
435 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
436 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
440 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
442 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
446 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Removing perl warning message.
450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
452 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
454 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
455 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
456 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
457 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
458 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
459 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
460 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
461 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
462 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
466 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
468 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
472 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
479 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
481 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
482 debconf-mergetemplate.
483 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
484 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
488 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
490 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
491 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
492 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
493 dh_install, which ...
494 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
495 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
496 mess, as it uses debian/install.
497 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
498 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
499 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
500 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
501 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
502 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
503 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
504 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
505 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
506 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
507 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
509 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
510 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
511 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
512 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
513 course there's -X ..)
514 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
515 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
516 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
518 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
519 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
520 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
521 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
522 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
527 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
533 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
535 * Typo, Closes: #139176
536 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
540 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
546 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
548 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
552 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
554 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
558 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
560 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
564 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
567 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
568 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
569 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
570 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
572 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
573 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
577 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
579 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
583 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
585 * Typo, Closes: #132454
586 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
590 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
593 upset. Closes: #131322
595 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
597 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
600 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
601 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
602 line, as well as in debian/rules.
603 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
604 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
605 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
606 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
607 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
608 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
609 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
610 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
611 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
612 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
613 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
614 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
616 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
620 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
623 - Better indenting of generated code.
624 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
628 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
632 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
633 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
634 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
635 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
636 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
637 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
638 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
642 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
645 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
649 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
651 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
652 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
653 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
654 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
655 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
656 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
657 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
658 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
659 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
660 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
661 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
662 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
663 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
664 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
665 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
666 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
671 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
677 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
680 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
681 * fixed dh_testdir man page
683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
685 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
687 * Typo, Closes: #122679
688 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
689 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
693 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
699 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
701 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
702 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
703 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
704 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
705 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
706 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
711 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
713 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
717 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
719 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
720 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
724 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
726 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
727 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
732 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
734 * Typo, Closes: #114135
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
738 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
741 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
745 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
751 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
753 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
755 Also some indentation fixes.
757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
759 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
761 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
762 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
763 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
764 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
765 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
766 Closes: #106514, #85520
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
770 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
772 * Typo, Closes: #104405
774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
776 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
778 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
782 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
784 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
788 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
794 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
800 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
803 change it in debhelper v4..
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
807 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
813 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
815 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
816 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
820 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
822 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
823 is not essential. Closes: #100430
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
827 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
833 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
835 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
836 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
837 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
838 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
839 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
840 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
841 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
842 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
843 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
844 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
845 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
846 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
847 prefixed with ".debhelper")
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
851 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
853 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
854 look just like shared libs, but are not.
856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
858 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
860 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
865 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
867 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
868 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
869 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
870 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
871 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
872 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
873 program those options go to. So, for example,
874 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
875 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
876 something complex. Closes: #89311
877 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
881 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
883 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
884 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
885 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
886 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
890 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
893 through loop. Closes: #98598
895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
897 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
899 * Missing semi-colon.
900 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
901 this (dh_* should be called, really).
903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
905 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
907 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
908 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
909 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
910 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
914 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
916 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
917 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
918 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
922 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
925 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
929 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
931 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
932 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
933 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
937 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
940 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
941 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
942 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
946 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
949 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
950 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
951 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
955 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
957 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
958 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
962 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
968 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
970 * Typo, Closes: #92407
972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
974 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
976 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
980 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
982 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
986 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
989 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
993 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
995 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
996 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
997 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
998 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
999 followed. Closes: #85483
1001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1003 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1005 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1006 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1007 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1011 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1014 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1015 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1016 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1017 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1018 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1019 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1020 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1021 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1022 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1023 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1024 Closes: #88464, #77743
1025 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1026 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1027 us to deal with that gracefully.
1028 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1030 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1031 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1032 a while, Closes: #51225
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1036 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1042 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1045 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1049 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1051 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1053 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1058 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1060 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1061 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1062 don't make packlist files.
1063 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1064 debhelper coding standards.
1065 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1066 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1070 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1073 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1077 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1080 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1081 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1082 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1083 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1084 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1085 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1086 but is mildly deprecated.
1087 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1088 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1089 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1090 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1091 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1092 switching to statoverrides..
1093 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1094 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1095 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1096 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1097 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1098 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1100 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1101 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1102 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1103 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1104 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1105 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1106 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1107 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1108 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1110 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1111 variable names, pod man pages).
1112 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1113 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1114 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1115 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1116 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1117 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1118 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1122 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1124 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1128 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1135 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1138 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1142 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1144 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1145 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1146 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1150 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1152 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1153 they were previously ignored.
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1157 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1159 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1160 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1164 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1166 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1167 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1168 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1172 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1174 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1178 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1180 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1181 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1185 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1187 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1188 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1189 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1190 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1191 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1192 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1193 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1194 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1195 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1196 it is an obsolete program.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1200 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1202 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1206 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1208 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1210 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1212 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1216 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1218 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1220 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1222 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1226 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1232 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * typo: Closes, #78567
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1238 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1242 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1244 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1246 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1250 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1252 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1253 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1254 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1255 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1256 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1257 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1261 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1264 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1269 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1271 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1272 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1273 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1274 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1275 backwards-compatability.
1277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1279 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1281 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1282 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1283 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1284 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1285 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1286 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1287 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1289 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1290 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1291 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1293 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1295 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1296 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1297 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1298 should now be raised to severity important..
1299 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1300 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1304 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1306 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1307 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1312 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1318 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1320 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1324 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1330 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1337 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1340 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1341 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1342 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1343 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1347 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1353 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1356 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1357 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1358 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1359 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1360 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1361 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1366 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1369 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1373 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1375 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1379 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1381 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1382 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1387 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1390 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1391 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1392 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1393 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1397 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1399 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1401 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1404 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1407 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1408 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1411 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1413 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1414 the TODO entry about it.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1418 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1420 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1425 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1428 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1429 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1433 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1436 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1437 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1438 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1439 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1443 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1449 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1456 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1459 (this appears to be logal).
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1463 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1466 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1467 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1468 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1469 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1473 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1475 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1479 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1482 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1483 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1484 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1485 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1495 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1498 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1502 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1509 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1512 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1513 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1514 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1519 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1521 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1526 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1528 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1532 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1534 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1535 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1536 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1537 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1538 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1539 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1540 notice until v2 is complete.
1541 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1542 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1543 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1544 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1545 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1546 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1548 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1549 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1550 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1551 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1555 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1561 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1563 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1568 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1571 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1575 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1582 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1585 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1586 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1587 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1588 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1593 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1596 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1597 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1598 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1603 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1606 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1607 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1611 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1614 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1618 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1621 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1625 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1632 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1635 depend on the build and install targets.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1639 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1642 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1646 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1648 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1653 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1655 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1659 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1665 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1667 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1668 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1669 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1670 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1671 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1672 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1673 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1675 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1676 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1677 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1678 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1679 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1680 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1681 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1685 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1691 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1697 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1700 right place. Closes: #55065
1702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1704 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1706 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1711 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1713 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1714 * Copyright date updates.
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1718 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1720 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1721 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1726 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1728 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1732 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1739 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1745 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1747 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1751 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1757 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1760 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1761 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1762 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1763 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1764 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1765 bits until all files have been registered.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1769 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * dh_installmanpages:
1772 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1773 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1774 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1775 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1776 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1777 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1778 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1779 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1780 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1781 otherwise change the result at all.
1783 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1784 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1785 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1786 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1787 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1792 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1796 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1798 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1801 act on files that don't exist.
1802 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1803 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1804 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1806 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1807 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1808 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1809 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1813 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1819 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1825 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1828 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1832 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1835 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1837 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1838 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1839 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1843 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1846 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1847 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1848 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1849 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1850 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1851 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1852 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1854 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1856 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1860 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1862 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1867 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1873 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1875 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1879 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1882 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1886 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1892 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1894 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1898 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1900 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1901 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1902 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1903 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1904 I made some changes, though:
1905 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1906 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1907 that is a clear violation of policy.
1908 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1909 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1910 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1911 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1912 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1913 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1914 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1915 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1916 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1918 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1922 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1928 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1931 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1935 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1938 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1939 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1944 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1950 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1957 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1960 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1961 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1962 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1963 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1964 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1965 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1966 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1970 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1976 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1980 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1981 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1985 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1991 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1993 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1994 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1998 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2000 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2001 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2002 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2004 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2006 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2008 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2013 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2017 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2021 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2023 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2024 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2025 for the dependancies to be generated.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2029 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2032 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2036 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2039 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2040 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2041 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2046 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2049 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2050 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2054 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2056 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2060 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2062 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2066 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2069 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2073 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2079 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2082 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2083 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2084 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2085 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2086 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2087 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2088 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2089 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2090 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2091 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2092 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2093 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2097 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2100 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2101 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2103 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2104 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2105 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2106 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2107 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2108 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2110 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2111 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2115 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2118 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2122 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2129 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2132 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2137 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2140 for building debhelper.
2141 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2145 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2147 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2152 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2155 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2159 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2162 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2163 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2164 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2165 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2166 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2167 it's always available.
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2171 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2174 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2175 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2176 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2180 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2183 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2184 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2188 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2194 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2197 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2201 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2203 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2207 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2210 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2211 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2212 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2216 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2218 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2219 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2224 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2227 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2228 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2230 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2231 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2235 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2237 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2241 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2243 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2247 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2249 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2250 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2254 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2256 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2257 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2258 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2260 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2264 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2267 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2268 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2269 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2273 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2275 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2276 things if CDPATH is set.
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2280 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2286 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2289 seems to make sense for the transition.
2291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2293 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2296 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2301 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2304 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2305 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2309 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2311 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2312 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2316 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2318 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2319 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2320 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2321 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2322 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2326 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2332 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2334 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2335 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2336 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2337 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2338 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2339 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2340 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2341 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2342 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2343 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2344 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2349 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2352 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2353 * README: mention doc/v2
2354 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2355 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2359 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2361 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2362 be using this script RSN.
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2366 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2369 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2370 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2371 more than 1 init script.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2375 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2378 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2382 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * Changed perl version detection.
2385 * Changed call to find.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2389 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2392 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2394 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2399 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * Really include dh_installpam.
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2405 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2408 * Wrote man page for same.
2410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2412 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2414 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2415 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2416 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2421 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2423 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2428 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2431 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2432 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2433 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2434 x bit was being set!
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2438 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2441 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2442 well. (Closes: 38900)
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2446 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2449 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2450 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2454 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2456 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2460 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2467 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2469 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2473 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2476 help from Julian Gilbey.
2477 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2478 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2479 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2480 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2481 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2482 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2483 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2488 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2490 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2494 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2501 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2507 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2513 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2516 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2520 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2523 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2527 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2530 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2534 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2540 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2543 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2547 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2553 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2559 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2561 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2562 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2563 may be deleted. (#35845)
2565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2567 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2569 * Various man page enhancements.
2570 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2575 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2577 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2578 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2579 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2583 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2586 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2587 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2588 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2590 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2591 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2596 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2602 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2604 * Another very minor typo fix.
2606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2608 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2610 * Very minor typo fix.
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2614 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2617 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2618 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2622 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2628 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2630 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2631 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2632 variables properly (#34850).
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2636 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2642 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2645 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2646 (automatically generated by build process).
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2650 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2652 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2656 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2658 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2659 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2660 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2662 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2666 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2669 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2673 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * README: minor typo fix.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2679 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2682 leave it at that. :-)
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2686 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2692 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2698 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2700 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2701 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2702 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2703 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2707 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2709 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2710 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2714 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2717 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2721 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2724 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2725 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2726 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2727 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2731 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2734 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2735 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2736 Craig Small for spotting this.
2738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2740 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2742 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2743 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2744 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2748 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2754 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2757 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2761 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2763 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2764 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2765 working on the last version of debhelper.
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2769 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2772 being made. (#23255)
2774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2776 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2778 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2782 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2784 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2785 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2789 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2791 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2792 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2793 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2794 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2795 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2799 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2801 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2802 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2803 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2804 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2805 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2807 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2808 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2810 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2815 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2817 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2821 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2827 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2829 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2830 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2831 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2832 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2833 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2834 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2835 suidregister actually supports it.
2836 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2837 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2841 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2843 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2848 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2850 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2851 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2852 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2853 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2854 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2855 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2856 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2857 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2861 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2863 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2864 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2868 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2871 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2872 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2873 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2874 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2878 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2881 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2883 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2884 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2885 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2886 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2887 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2888 effect, either. (#30118)
2890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2892 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2894 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2898 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2901 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2902 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2906 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2912 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2915 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2916 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2917 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2918 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2922 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2925 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2926 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2930 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2932 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2936 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2938 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2939 packages, painlessly.
2941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2943 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2945 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2949 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2951 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2955 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2961 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * The perl conversion is complete.
2965 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2967 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2968 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2969 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2974 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2976 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2977 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2978 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2979 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2983 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2985 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2986 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2988 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2990 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2991 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2995 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2998 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2999 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3003 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3005 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3009 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3012 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3013 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3014 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3015 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3016 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3020 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3022 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3023 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3024 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3025 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3026 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3030 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3033 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3037 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3039 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3040 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3041 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3042 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3043 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3044 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3045 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3046 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3047 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3051 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3057 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3060 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3061 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3062 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3067 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3070 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3074 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3077 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3081 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3084 sections of shared libraries.
3085 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3086 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3087 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3088 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3089 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3090 things you don't want them to.
3091 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3092 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3096 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3098 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3099 shared libraries. (#26414)
3101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3103 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3105 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3106 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3107 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3108 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3112 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3116 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3118 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3119 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3120 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3121 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3122 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3126 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3129 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3133 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3136 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3137 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3142 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3144 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3145 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3149 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3151 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3152 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3153 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3154 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3155 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3156 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3158 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3159 remove debian/files properly.
3160 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3161 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3162 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3163 * Removed bogus menu file.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3167 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3170 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3174 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3177 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3178 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3179 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3180 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3181 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3182 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3186 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3188 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3189 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3190 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3191 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3192 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3196 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3203 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3206 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3207 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3209 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3210 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3211 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3212 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3213 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3214 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3218 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3220 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3221 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3222 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3223 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3224 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3225 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3226 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3227 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3228 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3229 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3230 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3231 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3232 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3233 passed any switches.
3234 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3238 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3241 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3242 at all for a long while.
3243 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3244 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3245 large chunks in the process.
3246 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3247 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3248 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3253 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3255 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3256 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3258 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3263 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3266 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3267 that don't always have the same files in them.
3268 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3269 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3270 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3274 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3278 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3279 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3280 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3281 updating 27 man pages.
3282 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3283 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3284 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3285 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3286 programs act on. (#25247)
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3290 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3294 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3295 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3296 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3297 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3298 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3299 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3304 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3311 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3318 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3320 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3321 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3325 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3327 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3331 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3333 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3334 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3335 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3336 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3337 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3338 package by accident.
3339 * Is version 1.0 next?
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3343 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3346 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3347 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3351 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3353 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3354 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3355 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3356 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3357 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3358 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3360 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3365 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3368 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3369 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3373 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3375 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3376 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3380 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3383 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3384 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3389 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3391 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3395 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3397 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3398 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3399 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3404 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3410 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3412 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3413 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3414 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3415 past week. Thanks, guys!
3417 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3418 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3419 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3420 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3421 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3422 would do in the same situation.
3423 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3424 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3426 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3428 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3429 permissions changed.
3430 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3431 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3432 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3433 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3434 files are treated identically.
3435 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3436 * Minor man page fixes.
3437 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3438 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3439 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3443 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3445 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3446 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3447 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3448 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3449 use -X multiple times, too.
3450 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3451 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3455 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3458 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3459 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3463 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3465 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3466 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3470 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3472 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3473 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3474 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3475 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3476 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3477 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3478 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3479 shape if you're starting a new package.
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3483 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3486 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3488 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3490 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3492 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3493 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3494 because of missing symlinks.
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3498 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3504 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3507 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3508 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3509 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3510 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3511 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3513 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3514 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3518 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3520 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3521 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3522 to be changed after the fact :-)
3523 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3527 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3530 no version string after the -V.
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3534 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3536 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3537 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3542 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3544 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3545 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3549 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3551 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3552 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3553 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3554 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3555 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3556 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3557 I always welcome corrections!
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3561 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3563 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3567 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3569 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3570 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3571 * Documented this new switch.
3573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3575 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3577 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3578 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3579 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3580 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3581 no packages use the old behavior.
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3585 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3588 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3589 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3593 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3596 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3600 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3606 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3608 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3609 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3613 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3616 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3617 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3618 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3622 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3624 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3628 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3631 into the source package by accident.
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3635 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3638 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3639 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3640 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3641 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3642 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3643 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3648 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3650 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3652 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3653 inspired to implement some of it.
3654 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3658 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3661 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3665 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3668 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3669 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3673 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3675 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3676 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3677 have done.) (#17598)
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3681 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3687 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3693 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3695 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3696 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3700 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3702 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3703 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3704 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3708 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3710 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3711 argument processor in perl.
3712 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3713 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3714 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3715 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3719 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3721 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3722 type directories. (#16933)
3723 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3724 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3725 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3726 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3727 are supported. (#16935)
3728 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3733 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3735 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3736 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3738 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3740 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3742 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3744 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3745 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3746 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3747 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3748 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3749 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3751 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3753 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3755 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3756 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3757 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3759 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3760 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3761 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3762 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3763 a given package, or -i or -a.
3764 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3765 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3766 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3767 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3768 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3769 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3770 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3771 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3772 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3774 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3775 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3776 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3780 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3782 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3783 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3784 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3789 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3792 does not have a section.
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3796 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3799 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3800 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3801 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3805 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3807 * Fixed typo #16215.
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3811 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3814 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3815 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3816 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3817 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3818 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3823 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3826 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3827 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3828 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3833 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3835 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3839 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3845 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3847 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3848 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3849 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3850 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3851 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3852 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3853 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3857 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3859 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3863 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3866 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3870 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3873 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3874 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3875 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3879 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3881 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3882 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3886 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3888 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3892 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3894 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3895 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3899 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3901 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3902 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3906 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3908 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3912 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3915 postinst, postrm, etc.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3919 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3925 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3927 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3928 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3929 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3930 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3931 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3932 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3936 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3938 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3939 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3940 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3944 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3946 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3947 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3951 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3953 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3954 installing package files into.
3955 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3960 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3962 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3964 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3968 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3970 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3974 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3976 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3977 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3981 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3983 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3984 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3985 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3986 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3987 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3991 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3993 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3994 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3995 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3996 multiple binary packages.
3997 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3998 should rebuild them with this version.
3999 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4003 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4005 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4006 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4010 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4012 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4013 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4017 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4019 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4020 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4021 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4022 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4023 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4024 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4025 debian/README.debian.
4026 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4027 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4028 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4029 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4030 in a few situations.)
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4034 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4040 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4042 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4046 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4048 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4049 * Fixed several man pages.
4051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4053 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4055 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4056 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4057 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4061 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4063 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4064 is ready for general use.
4065 * Added man pages for all commands.
4066 * Multiple binary package support.
4067 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4068 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4069 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4071 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4072 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4073 auto-installed as parameters.
4074 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4076 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4079 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4080 the package build directory it is to act on.
4081 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4082 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4083 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4087 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4089 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4090 ready to replace debstd.
4092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400