1 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
4 out section number. Closes: #204731
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
8 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
10 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
15 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
17 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
21 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
25 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
27 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
29 * Typo, Closes: #203907
30 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
31 removal. Closes: #204286
33 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
35 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
37 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
38 renaming. Closes: #203548
40 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
42 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
44 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
45 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
46 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
50 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
52 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
54 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
56 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
58 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
62 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
66 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
68 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
70 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
71 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
72 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
73 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
75 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
77 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
79 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
80 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
81 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
85 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
87 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
91 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
93 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
98 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
101 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
106 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
108 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
109 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
113 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
115 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
116 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
118 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
119 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
123 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
125 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
126 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
131 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
133 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
134 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
138 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
140 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
144 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
146 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
150 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
152 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
153 it break hard links (see #188663).
155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
157 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
159 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
160 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
164 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
170 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
172 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
174 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
175 debconf-mergetemplates
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
179 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
181 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
182 pod2man. Closes: #184013
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
186 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
189 * Typo, Closes: #183267
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
193 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
195 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
196 * Update debhelper(1).
198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
200 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
202 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
203 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
204 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
205 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
206 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
207 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
211 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
213 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
214 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
215 the shell. Closes: #178524
216 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
220 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
222 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
223 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
227 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
229 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
230 undocumented.7 links anymore.
232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
234 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
236 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
237 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
238 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
239 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
240 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
245 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
247 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
248 files from installation.
250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
252 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
254 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
255 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
256 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
260 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
262 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
263 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
267 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
270 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
274 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
276 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
280 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
282 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
286 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
288 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
290 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
291 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
293 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
297 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
299 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
300 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
301 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
302 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
303 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
307 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
309 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
310 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
314 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
316 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
317 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
318 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
322 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
324 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
326 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
331 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
333 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
337 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
339 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
341 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
342 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
343 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
348 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
351 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
352 practice. Closes: #163303
354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
356 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
358 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
362 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
364 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
369 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
371 * The "reverse hangover" release.
372 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
374 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
375 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
376 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
377 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
378 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
382 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
384 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
385 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
390 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
392 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
396 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
398 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
403 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
405 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
406 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
411 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
417 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
423 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
429 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
436 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
439 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
440 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
441 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
442 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
445 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
447 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
449 * Typo, Closes: #155323
451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
453 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
460 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
462 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
463 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
464 * Removed dh_installxaw.
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
468 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
470 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
471 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
472 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
473 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
474 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
475 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
479 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
481 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
482 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
484 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
489 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
491 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
492 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
496 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
498 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
499 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
500 right thing. Closes: #150644
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
504 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
511 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
513 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
518 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
520 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
521 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
522 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
527 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
533 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
535 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
536 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
540 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
542 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
543 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
544 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
549 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
552 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
554 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
556 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
558 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
562 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
564 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
565 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
566 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
570 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
576 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
578 * Removing perl warning message.
580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
582 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
584 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
585 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
586 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
587 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
588 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
589 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
590 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
591 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
592 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
596 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
598 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
602 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
604 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
609 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
612 debconf-mergetemplate.
613 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
614 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
618 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
620 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
621 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
622 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
623 dh_install, which ...
624 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
625 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
626 mess, as it uses debian/install.
627 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
628 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
629 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
630 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
631 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
632 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
633 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
634 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
635 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
636 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
637 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
639 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
640 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
641 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
642 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
643 course there's -X ..)
644 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
645 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
646 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
648 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
649 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
650 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
651 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
652 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
657 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
659 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
663 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Typo, Closes: #139176
666 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
670 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
676 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
678 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
682 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
684 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
688 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
690 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
694 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
697 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
698 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
699 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
700 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
702 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
703 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
707 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
709 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
713 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
715 * Typo, Closes: #132454
716 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
720 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
722 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
723 upset. Closes: #131322
725 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
727 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
729 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
730 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
731 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
732 line, as well as in debian/rules.
733 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
734 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
735 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
736 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
737 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
738 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
739 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
740 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
741 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
742 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
743 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
744 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
746 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
750 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
752 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
753 - Better indenting of generated code.
754 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
758 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
760 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
762 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
763 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
764 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
765 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
766 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
767 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
768 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
772 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
774 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
775 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
777 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
779 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
781 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
782 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
783 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
784 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
785 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
786 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
787 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
788 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
789 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
790 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
791 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
792 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
793 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
794 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
795 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
796 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
801 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
803 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
807 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
809 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
810 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
811 * fixed dh_testdir man page
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
815 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Typo, Closes: #122679
818 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
819 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
823 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
825 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
829 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
831 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
832 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
833 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
834 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
835 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
836 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
841 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
843 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
847 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
850 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
854 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
856 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
857 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
862 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
864 * Typo, Closes: #114135
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
868 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
871 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
875 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
877 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
881 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
883 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
885 Also some indentation fixes.
887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
889 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
891 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
892 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
893 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
894 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
895 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
896 Closes: #106514, #85520
898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
900 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
902 * Typo, Closes: #104405
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
906 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
912 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
914 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
918 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
920 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
924 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
930 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
933 change it in debhelper v4..
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
937 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
939 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
943 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
945 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
946 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
950 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
952 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
953 is not essential. Closes: #100430
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
957 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
959 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
963 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
965 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
966 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
967 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
968 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
969 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
970 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
971 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
972 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
973 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
974 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
975 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
976 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
977 prefixed with ".debhelper")
979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
981 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
983 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
984 look just like shared libs, but are not.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
988 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
995 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
997 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
998 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
999 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1000 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1001 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1002 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1003 program those options go to. So, for example,
1004 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1005 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1006 something complex. Closes: #89311
1007 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1011 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1014 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1015 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1016 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1020 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1023 through loop. Closes: #98598
1025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1027 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1029 * Missing semi-colon.
1030 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1031 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1035 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1038 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1039 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1040 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1044 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1047 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1048 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1052 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1054 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1055 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1059 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1061 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1062 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1063 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1067 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1070 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1071 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1072 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1076 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1078 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1079 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1080 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1081 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1085 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1088 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1092 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1098 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1104 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1110 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1116 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1119 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1123 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1126 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1127 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1128 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1129 followed. Closes: #85483
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1133 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1135 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1136 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1137 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1141 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1143 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1144 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1145 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1146 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1147 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1148 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1149 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1150 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1151 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1152 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1153 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1154 Closes: #88464, #77743
1155 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1156 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1157 us to deal with that gracefully.
1158 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1160 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1161 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1162 a while, Closes: #51225
1164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1166 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1172 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1175 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1179 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1183 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1188 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1191 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1192 don't make packlist files.
1193 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1194 debhelper coding standards.
1195 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1196 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1200 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1203 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1207 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1209 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1210 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1211 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1212 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1213 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1214 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1215 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1216 but is mildly deprecated.
1217 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1218 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1219 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1220 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1221 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1222 switching to statoverrides..
1223 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1224 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1225 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1226 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1227 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1228 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1230 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1231 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1232 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1233 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1234 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1235 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1236 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1237 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1238 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1240 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1241 variable names, pod man pages).
1242 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1243 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1244 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1245 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1246 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1247 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1248 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1252 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1258 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1265 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1268 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1272 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1274 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1275 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1276 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1280 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1282 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1283 they were previously ignored.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1287 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1289 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1290 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1294 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1296 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1297 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1298 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1302 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1304 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1308 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1310 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1311 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1315 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1317 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1318 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1319 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1320 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1321 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1322 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1323 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1324 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1325 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1326 it is an obsolete program.
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1330 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1332 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1336 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1338 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1340 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1342 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1346 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1348 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1350 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1352 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1356 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1362 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1364 * typo: Closes, #78567
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1368 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1374 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1380 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1383 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1384 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1385 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1386 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1387 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1391 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1393 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1394 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1399 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1401 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1402 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1403 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1404 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1405 backwards-compatability.
1407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1409 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1411 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1412 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1413 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1414 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1415 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1416 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1417 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1419 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1420 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1421 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1423 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1425 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1426 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1427 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1428 should now be raised to severity important..
1429 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1430 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1434 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1437 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1442 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1448 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1454 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1460 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1467 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1470 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1471 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1472 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1473 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1477 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1483 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1485 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1486 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1487 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1488 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1489 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1490 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1491 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1496 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1499 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1503 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1509 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1512 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1517 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1519 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1520 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1521 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1522 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1523 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1527 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1531 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1534 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1536 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1537 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1538 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1541 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1543 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1544 the TODO entry about it.
1546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1548 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1555 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1557 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1558 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1559 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1563 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1566 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1567 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1568 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1569 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1573 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1575 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1579 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1586 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1589 (this appears to be logal).
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1593 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1596 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1597 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1598 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1599 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1603 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1605 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1609 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1612 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1613 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1614 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1615 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1619 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1625 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1627 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1628 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1632 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1639 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1642 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1643 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1644 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1649 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1651 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1656 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1660 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1662 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1664 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1665 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1666 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1667 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1668 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1669 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1670 notice until v2 is complete.
1671 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1672 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1673 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1674 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1675 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1676 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1678 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1679 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1680 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1681 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1685 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1691 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1696 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1698 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1700 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1701 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1705 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1712 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1714 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1715 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1716 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1717 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1718 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1723 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1726 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1727 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1728 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1733 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1736 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1737 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1741 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1744 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1748 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1751 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1755 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1762 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1765 depend on the build and install targets.
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1769 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1772 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1776 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1783 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1785 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1789 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1791 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1795 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1798 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1799 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1800 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1801 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1802 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1803 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1805 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1806 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1807 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1808 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1809 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1810 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1811 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1815 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1821 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1827 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1829 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1830 right place. Closes: #55065
1832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1834 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1836 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1841 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1843 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1844 * Copyright date updates.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1848 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1851 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1856 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1858 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1862 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1869 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1871 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1875 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1881 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1887 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1889 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1890 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1891 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1892 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1893 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1894 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1895 bits until all files have been registered.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1899 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_installmanpages:
1902 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1903 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1904 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1905 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1906 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1907 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1908 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1909 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1910 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1911 otherwise change the result at all.
1913 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1914 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1915 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1916 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1917 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1922 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1924 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1928 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1931 act on files that don't exist.
1932 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1933 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1934 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1936 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1937 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1938 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1939 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1941 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1943 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1945 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1949 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1951 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1955 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1958 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1962 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1964 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1965 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1967 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1968 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1969 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1973 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1976 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1977 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1978 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1979 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1980 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1981 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1982 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1984 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1986 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1990 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1995 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1997 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1999 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2003 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2009 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2012 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2016 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2022 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2024 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2028 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2030 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2031 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2032 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2033 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2034 I made some changes, though:
2035 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2036 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2037 that is a clear violation of policy.
2038 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2039 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2040 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2041 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2042 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2043 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2044 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2045 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2046 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2048 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2052 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2058 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2060 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2061 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2065 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2068 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2069 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2074 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2076 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2080 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2087 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2089 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2090 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2091 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2092 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2093 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2094 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2095 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2096 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2100 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2106 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2108 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2110 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2111 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2115 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2117 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2121 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2124 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2128 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2131 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2132 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2136 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2138 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2143 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2147 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2151 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2154 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2155 for the dependancies to be generated.
2157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2159 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2161 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2162 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2166 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2168 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2169 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2170 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2171 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2176 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2179 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2180 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2184 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2190 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2196 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2198 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2199 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2203 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2209 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2212 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2213 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2214 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2215 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2216 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2217 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2218 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2219 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2220 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2221 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2222 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2223 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2227 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2230 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2231 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2233 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2234 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2235 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2236 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2237 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2238 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2240 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2241 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2245 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2248 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2252 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2259 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2262 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2267 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2270 for building debhelper.
2271 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2275 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2282 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2284 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2285 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2289 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2292 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2293 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2294 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2295 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2296 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2297 it's always available.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2301 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2304 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2305 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2306 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2310 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2312 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2313 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2314 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2318 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2324 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2326 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2327 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2331 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2337 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2340 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2341 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2342 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2346 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2348 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2349 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2354 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2357 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2358 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2360 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2361 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2365 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2371 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2373 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2377 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2379 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2380 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2384 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2387 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2388 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2390 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2394 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2396 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2397 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2398 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2399 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2403 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2405 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2406 things if CDPATH is set.
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2410 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2416 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2419 seems to make sense for the transition.
2421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2423 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2425 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2426 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2431 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2433 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2434 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2435 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2439 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2441 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2442 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2446 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2449 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2450 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2451 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2452 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2456 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2462 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2465 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2466 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2467 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2468 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2469 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2470 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2471 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2472 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2473 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2474 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2479 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2482 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2483 * README: mention doc/v2
2484 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2485 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2489 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2491 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2492 be using this script RSN.
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2496 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2498 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2499 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2500 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2501 more than 1 init script.
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2505 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2508 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2512 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * Changed perl version detection.
2515 * Changed call to find.
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2519 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2522 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2524 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2529 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2531 * Really include dh_installpam.
2533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2535 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2537 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2538 * Wrote man page for same.
2540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2542 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2544 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2545 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2546 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2551 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2553 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2558 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2560 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2561 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2562 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2563 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2564 x bit was being set!
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2568 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2571 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2572 well. (Closes: 38900)
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2576 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2579 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2580 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2584 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2590 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2597 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2603 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2606 help from Julian Gilbey.
2607 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2608 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2609 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2610 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2611 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2612 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2613 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2618 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2622 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2624 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2626 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2631 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2637 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2639 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2643 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2646 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2650 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2652 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2653 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2657 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2659 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2660 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2664 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2666 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2670 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2673 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2677 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2683 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2685 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2689 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2691 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2692 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2693 may be deleted. (#35845)
2695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2697 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2699 * Various man page enhancements.
2700 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2705 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2708 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2709 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2713 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2715 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2716 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2717 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2718 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2720 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2721 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2726 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2728 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2732 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * Another very minor typo fix.
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2738 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * Very minor typo fix.
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2744 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2747 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2748 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2752 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2754 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2758 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2761 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2762 variables properly (#34850).
2764 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2766 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2768 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2772 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2774 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2775 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2776 (automatically generated by build process).
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2780 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2782 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2786 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2789 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2790 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2792 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2796 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2799 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2803 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2805 * README: minor typo fix.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2809 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2812 leave it at that. :-)
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2816 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2822 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2826 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2828 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2830 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2831 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2832 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2833 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2837 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2840 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2844 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2846 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2847 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2851 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2854 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2855 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2856 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2857 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2861 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2864 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2865 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2866 Craig Small for spotting this.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2870 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2873 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2874 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2878 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2884 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2886 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2887 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2891 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2893 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2894 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2895 working on the last version of debhelper.
2897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2899 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2901 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2902 being made. (#23255)
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2906 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2912 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2915 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2919 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2921 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2922 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2923 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2924 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2925 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2927 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2929 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2931 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2932 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2933 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2934 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2935 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2937 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2938 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2940 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2945 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2947 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2951 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2953 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2957 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2959 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2960 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2961 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2962 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2963 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2964 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2965 suidregister actually supports it.
2966 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2967 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2971 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2978 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2981 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2982 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2983 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2984 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2985 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2986 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2987 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2991 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2993 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2994 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2998 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3001 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3002 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3003 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3004 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3008 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3011 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3013 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3014 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3015 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3016 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3017 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3018 effect, either. (#30118)
3020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3022 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3024 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3028 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3031 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3032 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3036 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3042 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3044 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3045 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3046 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3047 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3048 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3052 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3055 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3056 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3060 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3066 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3069 packages, painlessly.
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3073 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3079 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3085 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3087 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3091 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * The perl conversion is complete.
3095 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3097 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3098 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3099 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3104 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3106 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3107 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3108 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3109 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3113 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3116 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3118 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3120 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3121 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3125 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3128 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3129 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3133 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3139 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3142 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3143 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3144 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3145 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3146 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3150 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3153 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3154 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3155 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3156 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3160 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3163 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3167 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3170 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3171 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3172 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3173 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3174 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3175 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3176 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3177 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3181 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3183 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3187 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3189 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3190 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3191 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3192 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3197 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3200 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3204 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3207 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3211 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3213 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3214 sections of shared libraries.
3215 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3216 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3217 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3218 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3219 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3220 things you don't want them to.
3221 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3222 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3226 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3229 shared libraries. (#26414)
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3233 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3235 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3236 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3237 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3238 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3242 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3244 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3246 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3248 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3249 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3250 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3251 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3252 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3256 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3258 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3259 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3263 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3266 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3267 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3270 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3272 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3274 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3275 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3279 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3282 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3283 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3284 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3285 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3286 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3288 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3289 remove debian/files properly.
3290 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3291 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3292 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3293 * Removed bogus menu file.
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3297 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3300 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3304 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3306 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3307 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3308 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3309 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3310 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3311 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3312 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3316 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3319 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3320 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3321 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3322 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3326 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3333 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3336 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3337 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3339 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3340 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3341 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3342 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3343 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3344 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3348 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3350 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3351 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3352 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3353 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3354 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3355 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3356 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3357 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3358 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3359 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3360 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3361 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3362 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3363 passed any switches.
3364 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3368 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3371 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3372 at all for a long while.
3373 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3374 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3375 large chunks in the process.
3376 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3377 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3378 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3383 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3385 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3386 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3388 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3393 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3396 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3397 that don't always have the same files in them.
3398 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3399 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3400 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3404 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3406 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3408 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3409 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3410 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3411 updating 27 man pages.
3412 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3413 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3414 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3415 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3416 programs act on. (#25247)
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3420 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3424 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3425 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3426 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3427 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3428 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3429 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3434 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3436 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3441 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3448 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3450 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3451 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3455 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3457 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3461 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3464 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3465 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3466 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3467 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3468 package by accident.
3469 * Is version 1.0 next?
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3473 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3476 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3477 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3481 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3483 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3484 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3485 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3486 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3487 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3488 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3490 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3495 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3498 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3499 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3503 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3505 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3506 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3510 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3512 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3513 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3514 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3519 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3521 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3525 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3528 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3529 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3534 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3540 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3542 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3543 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3544 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3545 past week. Thanks, guys!
3547 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3548 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3549 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3550 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3551 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3552 would do in the same situation.
3553 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3554 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3556 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3558 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3559 permissions changed.
3560 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3561 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3562 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3563 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3564 files are treated identically.
3565 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3566 * Minor man page fixes.
3567 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3568 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3569 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3573 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3575 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3576 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3577 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3578 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3579 use -X multiple times, too.
3580 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3581 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3585 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3588 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3589 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3593 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3595 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3596 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3600 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3603 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3604 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3605 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3606 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3607 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3608 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3609 shape if you're starting a new package.
3611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3613 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3615 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3616 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3620 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3623 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3624 because of missing symlinks.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3628 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3634 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3637 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3638 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3639 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3640 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3641 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3643 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3644 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3648 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3650 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3651 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3652 to be changed after the fact :-)
3653 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3657 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3659 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3660 no version string after the -V.
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3664 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3666 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3667 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3672 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3674 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3675 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3679 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3681 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3682 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3683 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3684 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3685 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3686 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3687 I always welcome corrections!
3689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3691 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3693 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3697 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3700 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3701 * Documented this new switch.
3703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3705 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3707 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3708 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3709 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3710 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3711 no packages use the old behavior.
3713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3715 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3717 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3718 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3719 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3723 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3725 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3726 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3730 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3736 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3738 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3739 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3743 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3745 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3746 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3747 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3748 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3752 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3758 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3761 into the source package by accident.
3763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3765 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3767 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3768 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3769 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3770 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3771 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3772 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3773 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3778 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3780 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3782 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3783 inspired to implement some of it.
3784 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3788 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3790 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3791 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3795 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3797 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3798 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3799 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3803 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3806 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3807 have done.) (#17598)
3809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3811 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3813 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3817 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3819 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3823 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3826 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3830 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3832 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3833 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3834 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3838 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3841 argument processor in perl.
3842 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3843 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3844 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3845 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3849 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3851 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3852 type directories. (#16933)
3853 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3854 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3855 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3856 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3857 are supported. (#16935)
3858 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3863 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3865 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3866 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3870 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3872 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3874 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3875 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3876 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3877 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3878 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3879 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3883 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3885 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3886 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3887 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3889 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3890 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3891 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3892 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3893 a given package, or -i or -a.
3894 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3895 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3896 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3897 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3898 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3899 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3900 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3901 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3902 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3904 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3905 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3906 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3910 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3912 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3913 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3914 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3919 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3922 does not have a section.
3924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3926 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3928 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3929 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3930 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3931 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3935 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Fixed typo #16215.
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3941 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3944 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3945 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3946 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3947 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3948 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3953 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3955 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3956 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3957 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3958 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3963 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3965 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3969 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3971 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3975 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3977 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3978 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3979 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3980 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3981 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3982 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3983 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3987 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3993 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3995 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3996 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4000 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4003 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4004 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4005 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4009 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4011 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4012 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4016 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4018 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4022 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4024 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4025 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4029 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4031 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4032 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4036 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4038 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4042 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4044 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4045 postinst, postrm, etc.
4047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4049 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4051 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4055 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4057 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4058 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4059 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4060 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4061 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4062 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4066 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4068 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4069 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4070 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4074 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4076 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4077 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4081 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4083 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4084 installing package files into.
4085 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4090 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4092 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4094 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4098 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4100 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4104 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4106 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4107 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4111 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4114 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4115 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4116 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4117 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4121 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4123 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4124 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4125 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4126 multiple binary packages.
4127 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4128 should rebuild them with this version.
4129 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4133 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4136 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4140 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4143 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4147 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4149 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4150 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4151 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4152 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4153 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4154 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4155 debian/README.debian.
4156 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4157 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4158 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4159 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4160 in a few situations.)
4162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4164 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4166 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4170 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4172 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4176 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4178 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4179 * Fixed several man pages.
4181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4183 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4185 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4186 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4187 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4191 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4194 is ready for general use.
4195 * Added man pages for all commands.
4196 * Multiple binary package support.
4197 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4198 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4199 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4201 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4202 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4203 auto-installed as parameters.
4204 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4206 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4209 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4210 the package build directory it is to act on.
4211 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4212 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4213 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4217 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4219 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4220 ready to replace debstd.
4222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400