1 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Typo, Closes: #114135
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
7 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
10 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
14 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
20 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
24 Also some indentation fixes.
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
28 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
30 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
31 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
32 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
33 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
34 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
35 Closes: #106514, #85520
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
39 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Typo, Closes: #104405
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
45 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
47 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
49 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
51 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
53 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
55 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
57 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
59 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
63 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
69 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
72 change it in debhelper v4..
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
76 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
78 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
80 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
82 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
84 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
85 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
87 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
89 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
91 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
92 is not essential. Closes: #100430
94 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
96 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
98 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
102 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
105 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
106 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
107 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
108 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
109 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
110 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
111 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
112 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
113 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
114 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
115 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
116 prefixed with ".debhelper")
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
120 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
122 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
123 look just like shared libs, but are not.
125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
127 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
129 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
134 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
136 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
137 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
138 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
139 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
140 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
141 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
142 program those options go to. So, for example,
143 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
144 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
145 something complex. Closes: #89311
146 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
150 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
153 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
154 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
155 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
159 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
162 through loop. Closes: #98598
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
166 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Missing semi-colon.
169 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
170 this (dh_* should be called, really).
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
174 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
177 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
178 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
179 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
183 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
185 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
186 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
187 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
191 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
193 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
194 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
198 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
200 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
201 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
202 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
206 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
208 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
209 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
210 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
211 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
215 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
218 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
219 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
220 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
224 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
226 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
227 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
231 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
237 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Typo, Closes: #92407
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
243 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
245 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
249 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
255 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
258 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
262 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
265 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
266 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
267 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
268 followed. Closes: #85483
270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
272 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
274 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
275 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
276 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
280 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
282 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
283 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
284 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
285 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
286 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
287 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
288 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
289 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
290 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
291 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
292 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
293 Closes: #88464, #77743
294 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
295 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
296 us to deal with that gracefully.
297 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
299 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
300 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
301 a while, Closes: #51225
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
305 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
311 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
313 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
314 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
318 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
320 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
322 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
327 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
330 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
331 don't make packlist files.
332 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
333 debhelper coding standards.
334 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
335 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
339 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
341 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
342 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
346 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
348 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
349 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
350 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
351 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
352 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
353 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
354 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
355 but is mildly deprecated.
356 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
357 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
358 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
359 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
360 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
361 switching to statoverrides..
362 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
363 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
364 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
365 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
366 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
367 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
369 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
370 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
371 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
372 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
373 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
374 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
375 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
376 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
377 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
379 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
380 variable names, pod man pages).
381 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
382 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
383 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
384 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
385 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
386 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
387 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
391 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
395 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
397 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
399 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
404 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
406 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
407 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
411 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
413 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
414 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
415 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
419 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
421 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
422 they were previously ignored.
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
426 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
428 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
429 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
433 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
435 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
436 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
437 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
441 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
443 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
447 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
449 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
450 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
454 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
456 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
457 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
458 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
459 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
460 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
461 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
462 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
463 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
464 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
465 it is an obsolete program.
467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
469 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
471 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
475 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
477 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
479 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
481 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
485 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
487 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
489 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
491 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
495 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
501 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
503 * typo: Closes, #78567
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
507 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
509 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
513 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
515 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
519 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
521 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
522 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
523 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
524 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
525 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
526 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
530 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
532 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
533 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
536 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
538 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
540 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
541 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
542 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
543 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
544 backwards-compatability.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
548 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
550 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
551 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
552 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
553 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
554 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
555 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
556 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
558 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
559 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
560 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
562 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
564 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
565 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
566 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
567 should now be raised to severity important..
568 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
569 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
573 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
576 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
581 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Typo, Closes: #77441
585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
587 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
589 * Completed the fix from the last version.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
593 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
597 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
599 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
601 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
606 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
609 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
610 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
611 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
612 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
616 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
618 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
622 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
624 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
625 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
626 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
627 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
628 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
629 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
630 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
635 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
637 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
638 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
642 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
644 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
648 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
650 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
651 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
656 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
658 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
659 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
660 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
661 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
662 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
666 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
668 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
670 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
673 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
675 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
676 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
677 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
680 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
682 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
683 the TODO entry about it.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
687 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
694 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
697 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
698 prevent that. Closes: #73052
700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
702 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
704 * Typo, Closes: #72932
705 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
706 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
707 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
708 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
712 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
718 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
720 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
725 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
727 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
728 (this appears to be logal).
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
732 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
735 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
736 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
737 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
738 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
742 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
748 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
750 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
751 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
752 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
753 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
754 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
758 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
764 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
767 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
771 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
773 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
778 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
780 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
781 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
782 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
783 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
788 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
795 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
797 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
801 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
803 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
804 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
805 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
806 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
807 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
808 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
809 notice until v2 is complete.
810 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
811 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
812 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
813 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
814 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
815 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
817 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
818 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
819 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
820 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
824 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
830 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
832 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
837 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
840 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
844 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
846 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
851 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
853 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
854 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
855 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
856 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
857 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
862 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
864 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
865 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
866 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
867 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
872 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
874 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
875 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
876 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
880 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
882 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
883 just skip files that end in -\d+.
885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
887 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
889 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
890 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
892 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
894 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
896 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
901 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
903 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
904 depend on the build and install targets.
906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
908 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
910 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
911 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
915 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
917 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
922 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
928 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
930 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
934 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
937 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
938 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
939 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
940 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
941 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
942 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
944 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
945 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
946 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
947 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
948 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
949 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
950 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
954 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
956 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
960 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
962 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
966 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
968 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
969 right place. Closes: #55065
971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
973 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
975 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
980 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Make all examples rules files executable.
983 * Copyright date updates.
985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
987 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
989 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
990 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
995 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1001 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1008 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1014 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1020 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1026 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1029 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1030 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1031 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1032 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1033 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1034 bits until all files have been registered.
1036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1038 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1040 * dh_installmanpages:
1041 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1042 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1043 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1044 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1045 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1046 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1047 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1048 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1049 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1050 otherwise change the result at all.
1052 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1053 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1054 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1055 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1056 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1061 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1067 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1070 act on files that don't exist.
1071 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1072 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1073 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1075 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1076 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1077 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1078 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1082 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1088 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1094 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1096 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1097 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1101 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1103 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1104 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1106 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1107 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1108 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1112 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1115 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1116 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1117 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1118 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1119 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1120 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1121 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1123 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1125 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1129 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1136 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1138 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1142 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1144 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1148 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1150 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1151 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1155 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1157 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1161 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1167 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1170 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1171 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1172 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1173 I made some changes, though:
1174 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1175 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1176 that is a clear violation of policy.
1177 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1178 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1179 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1180 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1181 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1182 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1183 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1184 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1185 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1187 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1191 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1197 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1199 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1200 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1204 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1206 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1207 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1208 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1213 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1215 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1219 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1226 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1229 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1230 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1231 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1232 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1233 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1234 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1235 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1239 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1245 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1249 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1250 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1254 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1260 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1263 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1267 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1270 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1271 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1275 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1277 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1282 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1284 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1286 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1290 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1292 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1293 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1294 for the dependancies to be generated.
1296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1298 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1300 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1301 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1305 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1307 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1308 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1309 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1310 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1315 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1317 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1318 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1319 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1323 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1329 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1335 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1338 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1342 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1348 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1351 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1352 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1353 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1354 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1355 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1356 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1357 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1358 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1359 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1360 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1361 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1362 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1366 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1368 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1369 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1370 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1372 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1373 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1374 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1375 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1376 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1377 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1379 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1380 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1384 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1386 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1387 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1391 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1398 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1401 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1406 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1408 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1409 for building debhelper.
1410 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1414 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1416 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1421 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1423 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1424 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1428 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1431 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1432 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1433 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1434 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1435 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1436 it's always available.
1438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1440 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1442 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1443 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1444 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1445 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1449 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1451 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1452 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1453 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1457 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1459 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1463 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1465 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1466 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1470 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1476 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1479 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1480 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1481 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1485 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1487 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1488 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1493 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1495 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1496 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1497 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1499 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1500 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1504 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1510 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1512 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1516 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1519 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1523 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1526 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1527 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1529 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1533 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1536 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1537 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1538 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1542 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1544 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1545 things if CDPATH is set.
1547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1549 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1555 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1558 seems to make sense for the transition.
1560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1562 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1564 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1565 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1570 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1573 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1574 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1578 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1581 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1585 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1588 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1589 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1590 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1591 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1595 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1601 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1604 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1605 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1606 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1607 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1608 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1609 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1610 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1611 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1612 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1613 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1618 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1620 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1621 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1622 * README: mention doc/v2
1623 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1624 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1628 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1630 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1631 be using this script RSN.
1633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1635 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1638 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1639 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1640 more than 1 init script.
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1644 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1647 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1651 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * Changed perl version detection.
1654 * Changed call to find.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1658 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1661 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1663 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1668 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Really include dh_installpam.
1672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1674 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1676 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1677 * Wrote man page for same.
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1681 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1684 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1685 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1690 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1697 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1700 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1701 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1702 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1703 x bit was being set!
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1707 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1710 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1711 well. (Closes: 38900)
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1715 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1718 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1719 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1723 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1729 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1736 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1742 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1744 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1745 help from Julian Gilbey.
1746 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1747 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1748 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1749 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1750 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1751 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1752 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1757 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1763 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1770 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1776 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1782 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1785 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1789 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1792 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1796 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1799 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1803 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1805 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1809 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1812 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1816 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1822 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1828 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1830 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1831 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1832 may be deleted. (#35845)
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1836 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Various man page enhancements.
1839 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1844 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1847 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1848 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1850 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1852 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1854 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1855 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1856 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1857 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1859 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1860 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1865 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1871 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * Another very minor typo fix.
1875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1877 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1879 * Very minor typo fix.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1883 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1886 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1887 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1891 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1897 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1900 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1901 variables properly (#34850).
1903 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1905 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1907 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1909 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1911 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1913 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1914 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1915 (automatically generated by build process).
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1919 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1921 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1925 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1928 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1929 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1931 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1935 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1937 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1938 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1942 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * README: minor typo fix.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1948 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1951 leave it at that. :-)
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1955 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1961 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1967 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1970 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1971 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1972 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1976 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1978 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1979 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1983 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1986 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1990 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1993 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1994 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1995 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1996 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2000 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2003 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2004 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2005 Craig Small for spotting this.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2009 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2012 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2013 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2017 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2023 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2026 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2030 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2032 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2033 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2034 working on the last version of debhelper.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2038 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2041 being made. (#23255)
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2045 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2051 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2054 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2058 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2061 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2062 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2063 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2064 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2068 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2070 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2071 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2072 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2073 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2074 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2076 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2077 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2079 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2084 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2086 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2090 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2096 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2099 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2100 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2101 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2102 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2103 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2104 suidregister actually supports it.
2105 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2106 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2110 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2117 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2120 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2121 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2122 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2123 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2124 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2125 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2126 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2130 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2132 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2133 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2137 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2140 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2141 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2142 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2143 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2147 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2149 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2150 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2152 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2153 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2154 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2155 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2156 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2157 effect, either. (#30118)
2159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2161 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2163 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2167 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2169 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2170 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2171 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2175 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2181 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2183 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2184 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2185 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2186 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2187 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2191 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2194 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2195 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2199 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2201 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2205 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2207 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2208 packages, painlessly.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2212 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2218 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2224 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2230 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * The perl conversion is complete.
2234 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2236 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2237 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2238 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2243 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2246 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2247 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2248 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2252 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2255 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2257 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2259 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2260 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2264 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2267 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2268 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2272 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2274 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2278 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2280 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2281 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2282 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2283 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2284 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2285 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2289 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2292 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2293 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2294 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2295 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2299 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2301 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2302 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2306 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2309 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2310 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2311 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2312 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2313 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2314 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2315 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2316 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2320 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2326 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2329 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2330 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2331 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2336 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2338 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2339 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2343 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2345 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2346 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2350 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2353 sections of shared libraries.
2354 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2355 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2356 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2357 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2358 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2359 things you don't want them to.
2360 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2361 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2365 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2368 shared libraries. (#26414)
2370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2372 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2374 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2375 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2376 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2377 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2381 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2383 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2385 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2387 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2388 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2389 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2390 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2391 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2395 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2397 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2398 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2402 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2405 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2406 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2411 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2414 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2418 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2420 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2421 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2422 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2423 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2424 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2425 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2427 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2428 remove debian/files properly.
2429 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2430 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2431 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2432 * Removed bogus menu file.
2434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2436 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2438 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2439 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2443 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2446 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2447 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2448 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2449 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2450 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2451 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2455 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2458 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2459 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2460 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2461 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2463 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2465 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2467 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2472 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2474 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2475 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2476 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2478 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2479 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2480 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2481 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2482 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2483 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2487 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2490 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2491 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2492 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2493 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2494 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2495 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2496 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2497 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2498 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2499 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2500 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2501 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2502 passed any switches.
2503 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2507 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2509 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2510 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2511 at all for a long while.
2512 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2513 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2514 large chunks in the process.
2515 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2516 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2517 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2522 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2524 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2525 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2527 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2532 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2535 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2536 that don't always have the same files in them.
2537 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2538 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2539 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2541 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2543 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2545 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2547 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2548 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2549 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2550 updating 27 man pages.
2551 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2552 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2553 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2554 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2555 programs act on. (#25247)
2557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2559 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2563 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2564 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2565 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2566 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2567 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2568 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2573 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2580 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2587 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2590 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2594 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2596 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2600 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2602 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2603 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2604 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2605 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2606 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2607 package by accident.
2608 * Is version 1.0 next?
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2612 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2615 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2616 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2620 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2623 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2624 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2625 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2626 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2627 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2629 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2634 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2636 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2637 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2638 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2642 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2645 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2649 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2651 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2652 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2653 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2658 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2664 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2667 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2668 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2673 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2675 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2679 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2682 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2683 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2684 past week. Thanks, guys!
2686 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2687 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2688 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2689 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2690 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2691 would do in the same situation.
2692 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2693 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2695 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2697 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2698 permissions changed.
2699 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2700 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2701 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2702 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2703 files are treated identically.
2704 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2705 * Minor man page fixes.
2706 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2707 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2708 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2712 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2715 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2716 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2717 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2718 use -X multiple times, too.
2719 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2720 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2724 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2727 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2728 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2732 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2735 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2739 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2742 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2743 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2744 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2745 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2746 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2747 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2748 shape if you're starting a new package.
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2752 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2755 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2759 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2762 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2763 because of missing symlinks.
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2767 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2773 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2776 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2777 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2778 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2779 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2780 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2782 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2783 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2787 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2789 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2790 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2791 to be changed after the fact :-)
2792 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2796 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2799 no version string after the -V.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2803 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2805 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2806 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2811 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2813 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2814 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2818 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2820 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2821 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2822 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2823 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2824 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2825 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2826 I always welcome corrections!
2828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2830 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2832 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2836 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2839 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2840 * Documented this new switch.
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2844 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2847 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2848 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2849 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2850 no packages use the old behavior.
2852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2854 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2856 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2857 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2858 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2862 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2865 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2869 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2875 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2878 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2882 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2885 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2886 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2887 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2891 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2893 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2897 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2899 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2900 into the source package by accident.
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2904 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2907 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2908 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2909 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2910 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2911 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2912 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2915 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2917 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2919 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2921 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2922 inspired to implement some of it.
2923 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2927 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2930 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2934 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2937 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2938 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2942 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2944 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2945 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2946 have done.) (#17598)
2948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2950 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2952 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2956 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2958 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2962 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2964 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2965 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2969 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2971 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2972 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2973 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2977 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2980 argument processor in perl.
2981 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2982 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2983 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2984 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2988 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2991 type directories. (#16933)
2992 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2993 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2994 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2995 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2996 are supported. (#16935)
2997 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3002 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3005 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3009 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3013 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3014 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3015 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3016 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3017 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3018 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3022 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3025 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3026 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3028 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3029 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3030 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3031 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3032 a given package, or -i or -a.
3033 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3034 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3035 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3036 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3037 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3038 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3039 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3040 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3041 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3043 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3044 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3045 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3049 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3052 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3053 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3058 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3061 does not have a section.
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3065 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3068 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3069 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3070 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3074 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * Fixed typo #16215.
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3080 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3083 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3084 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3085 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3086 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3087 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3092 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3095 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3096 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3097 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3102 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3108 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3114 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3117 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3118 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3119 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3120 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3121 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3122 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3124 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3126 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3128 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3132 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3135 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3139 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3142 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3143 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3144 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3148 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3151 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3155 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3161 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3163 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3164 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3168 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3170 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3171 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3175 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3177 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3181 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3184 postinst, postrm, etc.
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3188 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3194 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3196 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3197 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3198 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3199 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3200 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3201 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3205 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3208 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3209 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3213 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3215 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3216 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3220 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3223 installing package files into.
3224 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3229 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3233 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3237 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3243 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3245 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3246 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3250 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3252 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3253 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3254 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3255 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3256 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3260 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3262 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3263 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3264 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3265 multiple binary packages.
3266 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3267 should rebuild them with this version.
3268 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3272 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3275 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3279 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3282 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3286 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3288 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3289 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3290 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3291 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3292 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3293 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3294 debian/README.debian.
3295 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3296 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3297 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3298 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3299 in a few situations.)
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3303 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3309 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3315 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3317 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3318 * Fixed several man pages.
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3322 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3325 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3326 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3330 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3332 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3333 is ready for general use.
3334 * Added man pages for all commands.
3335 * Multiple binary package support.
3336 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3337 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3338 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3340 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3341 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3342 auto-installed as parameters.
3343 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3345 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3348 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3349 the package build directory it is to act on.
3350 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3351 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3352 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3356 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3358 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3359 ready to replace debstd.
3361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400