1 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
4 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
8 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
11 is not essential. Closes: #100430
13 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
15 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
17 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
21 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
23 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
24 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
25 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
26 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
27 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
28 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
29 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
30 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
31 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
32 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
33 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
34 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
35 prefixed with ".debhelper")
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
39 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
42 look just like shared libs, but are not.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
46 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
51 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
53 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
55 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
56 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
57 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
58 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
59 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
60 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
61 program those options go to. So, for example,
62 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
63 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
64 something complex. Closes: #89311
65 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
69 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
72 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
73 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
74 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
76 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
78 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
80 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
81 through loop. Closes: #98598
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
85 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
88 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
89 this (dh_* should be called, really).
91 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
93 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
95 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
96 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
97 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
98 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
102 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
104 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
105 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
106 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
110 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
113 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
117 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
120 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
121 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
125 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
127 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
128 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
129 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
130 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
134 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
136 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
137 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
138 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
139 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
143 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
145 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
146 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
150 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
156 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
158 * Typo, Closes: #92407
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
162 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
164 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
168 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
170 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
174 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
176 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
177 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
181 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
184 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
185 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
186 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
187 followed. Closes: #85483
189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
191 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
193 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
194 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
195 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
199 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
201 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
202 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
203 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
204 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
205 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
206 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
207 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
208 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
209 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
210 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
211 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
212 Closes: #88464, #77743
213 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
214 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
215 us to deal with that gracefully.
216 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
218 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
219 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
220 a while, Closes: #51225
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
224 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
230 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
233 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
237 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
241 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
246 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
248 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
249 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
250 don't make packlist files.
251 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
252 debhelper coding standards.
253 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
254 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
258 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
261 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
265 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
267 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
268 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
269 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
270 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
271 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
272 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
273 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
274 but is mildly deprecated.
275 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
276 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
277 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
278 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
279 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
280 switching to statoverrides..
281 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
282 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
283 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
284 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
285 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
286 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
288 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
289 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
290 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
291 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
292 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
293 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
294 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
295 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
296 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
298 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
299 variable names, pod man pages).
300 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
301 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
302 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
303 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
304 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
305 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
306 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
310 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
316 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
318 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
323 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
325 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
326 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
330 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
332 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
333 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
334 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
336 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
338 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
340 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
341 they were previously ignored.
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
345 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
347 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
348 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
352 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
354 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
355 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
356 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
358 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
360 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
362 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
366 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
368 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
369 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
373 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
375 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
376 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
377 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
378 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
379 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
380 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
381 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
382 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
383 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
384 it is an obsolete program.
386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
388 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
390 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
394 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
398 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
400 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
402 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
404 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
406 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
408 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
410 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
412 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
414 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
420 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
422 * typo: Closes, #78567
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
426 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
428 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
432 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
434 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
438 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
440 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
441 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
442 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
443 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
444 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
445 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
449 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
451 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
452 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
457 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
459 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
460 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
461 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
462 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
463 backwards-compatability.
465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
467 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
469 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
470 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
471 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
472 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
473 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
474 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
475 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
477 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
478 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
479 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
481 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
483 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
484 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
485 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
486 should now be raised to severity important..
487 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
488 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
492 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
495 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
500 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Typo, Closes: #77441
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
506 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Completed the fix from the last version.
510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
512 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
514 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
518 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
520 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
525 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
528 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
529 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
530 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
531 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
535 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
541 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
543 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
544 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
545 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
546 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
547 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
548 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
549 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
554 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
556 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
557 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
561 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
563 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
565 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
567 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
569 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
570 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
575 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
577 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
578 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
579 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
580 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
581 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
585 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
587 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
589 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
592 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
595 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
596 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
599 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
601 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
602 the TODO entry about it.
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
606 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
608 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
613 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
616 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
617 prevent that. Closes: #73052
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
621 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Typo, Closes: #72932
624 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
625 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
626 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
627 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
631 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
633 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
637 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
639 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
644 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
646 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
647 (this appears to be logal).
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
651 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
653 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
654 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
655 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
656 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
657 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
661 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
663 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
667 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
669 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
670 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
671 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
672 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
673 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
677 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
683 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
685 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
686 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
690 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
692 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
697 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
699 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
700 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
701 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
702 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
707 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
709 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
714 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
716 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
720 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
722 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
723 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
724 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
725 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
726 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
727 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
728 notice until v2 is complete.
729 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
730 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
731 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
732 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
733 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
734 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
736 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
737 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
738 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
739 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
743 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
745 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
749 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
751 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
756 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
758 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
759 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
763 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
770 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
772 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
773 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
774 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
775 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
776 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
781 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
783 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
784 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
785 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
786 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
789 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
791 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
793 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
794 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
795 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
799 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
801 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
802 just skip files that end in -\d+.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
806 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
808 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
809 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
813 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
815 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
820 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
822 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
823 depend on the build and install targets.
825 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
827 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
829 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
830 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
834 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
836 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
841 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
843 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
847 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
853 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
855 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
856 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
857 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
858 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
859 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
860 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
861 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
863 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
864 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
865 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
866 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
867 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
868 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
869 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
873 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
879 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
881 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
885 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
887 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
888 right place. Closes: #55065
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
892 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
894 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
899 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Make all examples rules files executable.
902 * Copyright date updates.
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
906 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
908 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
909 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
914 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
916 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
920 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
922 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
927 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
933 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
935 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
939 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
941 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
945 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
948 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
949 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
950 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
951 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
952 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
953 bits until all files have been registered.
955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
957 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
959 * dh_installmanpages:
960 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
961 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
962 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
963 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
964 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
965 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
966 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
967 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
968 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
969 otherwise change the result at all.
971 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
972 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
973 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
974 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
975 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
980 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
982 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
986 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
988 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
989 act on files that don't exist.
990 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
991 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
992 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
994 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
995 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
996 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
997 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1001 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1007 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1009 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1013 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1016 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1018 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1020 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1022 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1023 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1025 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1026 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1027 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1031 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1034 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1035 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1036 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1037 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1038 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1039 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1040 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1042 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1044 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1048 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1053 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1055 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1061 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1067 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1070 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1074 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1080 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1082 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1086 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1089 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1090 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1091 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1092 I made some changes, though:
1093 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1094 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1095 that is a clear violation of policy.
1096 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1097 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1098 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1099 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1100 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1101 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1102 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1103 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1104 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1106 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1110 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1116 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1119 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1123 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1125 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1126 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1127 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1132 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1134 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1138 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1145 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1148 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1149 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1150 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1151 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1152 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1153 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1154 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1158 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1160 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1164 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1168 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1169 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1173 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1179 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1182 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1186 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1189 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1190 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1194 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1196 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1201 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1203 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1205 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1209 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1212 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1213 for the dependancies to be generated.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1217 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1220 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1224 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1226 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1227 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1228 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1229 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1234 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1237 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1238 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1242 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1244 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1248 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1250 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1254 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1256 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1257 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1261 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1263 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1267 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1270 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1271 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1272 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1273 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1274 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1275 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1276 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1277 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1278 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1279 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1280 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1281 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1285 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1288 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1289 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1291 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1292 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1293 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1294 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1295 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1296 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1298 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1299 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1303 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1306 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1310 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1317 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1319 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1320 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1325 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1327 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1328 for building debhelper.
1329 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1333 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1335 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1340 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1342 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1343 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1345 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1347 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1349 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1350 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1351 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1352 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1353 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1354 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1355 it's always available.
1357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1359 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1361 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1362 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1363 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1364 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1368 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1370 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1371 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1372 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1376 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1382 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1385 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1389 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1395 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1398 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1399 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1400 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1404 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1407 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1412 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1415 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1416 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1418 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1419 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1423 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1429 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1435 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1438 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1442 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1444 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1445 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1446 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1448 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1452 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1454 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1455 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1456 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1457 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1461 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1464 things if CDPATH is set.
1466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1468 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1474 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1477 seems to make sense for the transition.
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1481 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1484 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1492 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1493 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1500 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1504 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1507 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1508 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1509 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1510 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1514 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1520 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1523 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1524 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1525 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1526 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1527 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1528 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1529 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1530 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1531 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1532 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1537 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1540 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1541 * README: mention doc/v2
1542 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1543 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1547 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1549 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1550 be using this script RSN.
1552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1554 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1556 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1557 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1558 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1559 more than 1 init script.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1563 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1566 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1570 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Changed perl version detection.
1573 * Changed call to find.
1575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1577 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1579 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1580 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1582 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1587 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1589 * Really include dh_installpam.
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1593 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1596 * Wrote man page for same.
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1600 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1603 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1604 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1609 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1611 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1616 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1618 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1619 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1620 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1621 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1622 x bit was being set!
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1626 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1629 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1630 well. (Closes: 38900)
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1634 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1637 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1638 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1642 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1648 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1655 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1657 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1661 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1663 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1664 help from Julian Gilbey.
1665 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1666 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1667 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1668 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1669 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1670 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1671 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1676 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1678 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1682 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1689 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1695 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1701 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1704 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1708 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1711 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1715 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1717 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1718 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1722 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1726 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1728 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1730 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1731 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1735 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1737 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1741 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1747 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1749 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1750 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1751 may be deleted. (#35845)
1753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1755 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1757 * Various man page enhancements.
1758 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1763 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1766 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1767 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1771 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1774 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1775 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1776 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1778 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1779 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1784 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1786 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1790 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1792 * Another very minor typo fix.
1794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1796 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1798 * Very minor typo fix.
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1802 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1804 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1805 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1806 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1810 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1812 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1816 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1818 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1819 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1820 variables properly (#34850).
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1824 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
1830 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
1832 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
1833 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
1834 (automatically generated by build process).
1836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
1838 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
1840 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
1842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
1844 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
1846 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
1847 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
1848 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
1850 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
1852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
1854 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
1857 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
1859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
1861 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
1863 * README: minor typo fix.
1865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
1867 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
1869 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
1870 leave it at that. :-)
1872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
1874 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
1876 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
1878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
1880 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
1882 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
1886 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
1889 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
1890 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
1891 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
1893 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
1895 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
1897 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
1898 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
1900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
1902 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
1904 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
1905 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
1907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
1909 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
1911 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
1912 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
1913 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
1914 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
1915 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
1919 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
1922 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
1923 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
1924 Craig Small for spotting this.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
1928 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
1931 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
1932 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
1936 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
1942 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
1945 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
1947 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
1949 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
1951 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
1952 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
1953 working on the last version of debhelper.
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
1957 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
1960 being made. (#23255)
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
1964 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
1970 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
1973 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
1977 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
1980 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
1981 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
1982 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
1983 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
1987 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
1990 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
1991 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
1992 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
1993 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
1995 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
1996 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
1998 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2001 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2003 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2005 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2009 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2011 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2015 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2018 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2019 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2020 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2021 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2022 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2023 suidregister actually supports it.
2024 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2025 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2027 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2029 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2031 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2036 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2038 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2039 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2040 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2041 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2042 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2043 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2044 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2045 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2049 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2051 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2052 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2056 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2059 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2060 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2061 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2062 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2066 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2069 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2071 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2072 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2073 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2074 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2075 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2076 effect, either. (#30118)
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2080 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2086 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2089 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2090 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2094 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2096 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2100 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2103 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2104 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2105 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2106 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2110 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2112 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2113 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2114 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2118 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2120 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2124 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2126 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2127 packages, painlessly.
2129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2131 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2133 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2137 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2139 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2143 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2149 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * The perl conversion is complete.
2153 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2155 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2156 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2157 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2162 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2165 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2166 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2167 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2169 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2171 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2173 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2174 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2176 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2178 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2179 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2183 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2186 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2187 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2191 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2197 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2200 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2201 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2202 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2203 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2204 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2206 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2208 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2210 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2211 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2212 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2213 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2214 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2218 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2221 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2225 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2228 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2229 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2230 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2231 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2232 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2233 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2234 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2235 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2239 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2245 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2248 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2249 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2250 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2255 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2257 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2258 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2262 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2264 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2265 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2269 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2271 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2272 sections of shared libraries.
2273 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2274 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2275 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2276 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2277 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2278 things you don't want them to.
2279 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2280 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2284 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2287 shared libraries. (#26414)
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2291 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2293 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2294 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2295 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2296 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2300 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2304 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2306 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2307 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2308 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2309 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2310 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2314 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2317 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2321 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2324 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2325 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2330 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2332 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2333 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2337 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2340 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2341 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2342 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2343 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2344 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2346 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2347 remove debian/files properly.
2348 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2349 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2350 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2351 * Removed bogus menu file.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2355 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2358 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2362 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2365 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2366 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2367 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2368 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2369 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2370 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2374 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2376 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2377 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2378 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2379 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2380 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2384 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2386 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2391 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2394 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2395 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2397 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2398 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2399 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2400 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2401 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2402 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2406 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2409 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2410 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2411 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2412 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2413 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2414 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2415 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2416 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2417 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2418 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2419 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2420 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2421 passed any switches.
2422 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2426 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2429 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2430 at all for a long while.
2431 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2432 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2433 large chunks in the process.
2434 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2435 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2436 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2441 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2443 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2444 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2446 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2451 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2453 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2454 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2455 that don't always have the same files in them.
2456 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2457 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2458 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2462 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2466 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2467 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2468 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2469 updating 27 man pages.
2470 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2471 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2472 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2473 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2474 programs act on. (#25247)
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2478 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2482 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2483 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2484 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2485 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2486 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2487 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2492 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2499 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2506 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2508 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2509 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2513 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2519 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2521 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2522 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2523 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2524 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2525 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2526 package by accident.
2527 * Is version 1.0 next?
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2531 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2534 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2535 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2539 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2542 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2543 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2544 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2545 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2546 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2548 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2553 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2555 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2556 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2557 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2561 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2563 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2564 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2566 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2568 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2570 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2571 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2572 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2577 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2583 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2585 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2586 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2587 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2592 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2598 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2600 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2601 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2602 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2603 past week. Thanks, guys!
2605 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2606 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2607 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2608 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2609 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2610 would do in the same situation.
2611 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2612 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2614 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2616 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2617 permissions changed.
2618 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2619 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2620 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2621 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2622 files are treated identically.
2623 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2624 * Minor man page fixes.
2625 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2626 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2627 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2631 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2633 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2634 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2635 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2636 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2637 use -X multiple times, too.
2638 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2639 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2643 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2646 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2647 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2651 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2653 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2654 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2658 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2661 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2662 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2663 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2664 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2665 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2666 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2667 shape if you're starting a new package.
2669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2671 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2673 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2674 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2678 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2680 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2681 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2682 because of missing symlinks.
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2686 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2692 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2695 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2696 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2697 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2698 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2699 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2701 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2702 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2706 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2708 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2709 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2710 to be changed after the fact :-)
2711 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2713 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2715 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2717 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2718 no version string after the -V.
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2722 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2724 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2725 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2730 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2732 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2733 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2737 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2739 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2740 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2741 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2742 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2743 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2744 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2745 I always welcome corrections!
2747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2749 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2751 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2755 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2757 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2758 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2759 * Documented this new switch.
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2763 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2766 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2767 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2768 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2769 no packages use the old behavior.
2771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2773 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2775 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2776 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2777 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2781 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2784 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2788 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2794 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2797 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2801 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2804 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2805 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2806 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2810 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2816 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2819 into the source package by accident.
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2823 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2826 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2827 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2828 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
2829 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
2830 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
2831 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
2834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
2836 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
2840 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
2841 inspired to implement some of it.
2842 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
2844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
2846 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2848 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
2849 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
2853 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
2856 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
2857 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
2859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
2861 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2863 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
2864 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
2865 have done.) (#17598)
2867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
2869 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2871 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
2873 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
2875 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2877 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
2879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
2881 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2883 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
2884 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
2888 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
2891 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
2892 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
2896 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
2899 argument processor in perl.
2900 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
2901 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
2902 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
2903 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
2905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
2907 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
2910 type directories. (#16933)
2911 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
2912 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
2913 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
2914 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
2915 are supported. (#16935)
2916 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
2919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
2921 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2923 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
2924 This has been broken since version 0.30.
2926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
2928 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2930 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
2932 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
2933 version requirements in the shlibs file.
2934 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
2935 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
2936 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
2937 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
2941 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
2944 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
2945 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
2947 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
2948 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
2949 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
2950 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
2951 a given package, or -i or -a.
2952 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
2953 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
2954 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
2955 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
2956 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
2957 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
2958 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
2959 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
2960 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
2962 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
2963 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
2964 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
2968 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
2971 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
2972 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
2977 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
2979 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
2980 does not have a section.
2982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
2984 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
2986 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
2987 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
2988 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
2989 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
2991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
2993 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
2995 * Fixed typo #16215.
2997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
2999 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3001 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3002 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3003 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3004 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3005 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3006 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3011 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3014 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3015 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3016 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3021 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3023 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3027 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3033 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3036 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3037 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3038 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3039 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3040 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3041 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3045 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3051 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3053 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3054 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3058 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3060 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3061 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3062 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3063 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3067 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3070 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3074 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3076 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3080 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3083 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3087 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3089 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3090 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3094 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3100 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3103 postinst, postrm, etc.
3105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3107 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3109 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3113 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3115 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3116 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3117 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3118 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3119 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3120 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3124 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3127 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3128 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3132 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3135 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3139 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3142 installing package files into.
3143 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3148 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3152 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3156 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3162 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3165 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3169 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3171 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3172 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3173 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3174 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3175 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3179 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3181 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3182 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3183 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3184 multiple binary packages.
3185 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3186 should rebuild them with this version.
3187 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3191 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3193 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3194 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3198 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3201 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3205 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3207 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3208 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3209 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3210 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3211 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3212 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3213 debian/README.debian.
3214 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3215 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3216 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3217 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3218 in a few situations.)
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3222 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3228 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3234 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3237 * Fixed several man pages.
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3241 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3244 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3245 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3249 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3252 is ready for general use.
3253 * Added man pages for all commands.
3254 * Multiple binary package support.
3255 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3256 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3257 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3259 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3260 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3261 auto-installed as parameters.
3262 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3264 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3267 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3268 the package build directory it is to act on.
3269 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3270 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3271 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3275 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3277 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3278 ready to replace debstd.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400