1 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Typo, Closes: #155323
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
7 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
14 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
16 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
17 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
18 * Removed dh_installxaw.
20 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
22 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
24 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
25 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
26 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
27 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
28 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
29 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
33 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
35 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
36 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
38 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
41 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
43 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
45 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
46 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
48 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
50 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
52 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
53 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
54 right thing. Closes: #150644
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
58 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
61 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
63 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
65 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
67 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
70 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
72 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
74 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
75 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
76 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
81 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
87 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
89 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
90 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
94 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
96 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
97 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
98 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
101 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
103 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
105 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
106 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
110 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
112 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
116 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
118 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
119 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
120 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
124 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
130 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
132 * Removing perl warning message.
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
136 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
139 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
140 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
141 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
142 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
143 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
144 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
145 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
146 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
150 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
152 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
156 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
158 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
163 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
165 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
166 debconf-mergetemplate.
167 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
168 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
172 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
175 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
176 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
177 dh_install, which ...
178 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
179 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
180 mess, as it uses debian/install.
181 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
182 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
183 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
184 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
185 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
186 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
187 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
188 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
189 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
190 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
191 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
193 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
194 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
195 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
196 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
197 course there's -X ..)
198 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
199 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
200 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
202 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
203 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
204 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
205 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
206 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
211 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
217 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
219 * Typo, Closes: #139176
220 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
224 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
230 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
232 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
236 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
238 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
242 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
244 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
248 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
250 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
251 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
252 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
253 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
254 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
256 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
257 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
259 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
261 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
263 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
267 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
269 * Typo, Closes: #132454
270 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
274 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
276 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
277 upset. Closes: #131322
279 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
281 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
284 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
285 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
286 line, as well as in debian/rules.
287 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
288 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
289 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
290 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
291 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
292 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
293 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
294 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
295 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
296 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
297 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
298 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
300 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
304 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
306 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
307 - Better indenting of generated code.
308 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
312 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
316 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
317 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
318 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
319 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
320 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
321 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
322 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
326 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
328 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
329 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
333 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
335 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
336 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
337 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
338 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
339 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
340 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
341 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
342 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
343 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
344 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
345 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
346 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
347 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
348 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
349 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
350 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
355 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
361 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
363 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
364 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
365 * fixed dh_testdir man page
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
369 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Typo, Closes: #122679
372 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
373 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
377 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
379 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
383 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
385 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
386 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
387 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
388 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
389 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
390 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
395 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
397 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
401 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
403 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
404 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
408 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
410 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
411 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
416 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
418 * Typo, Closes: #114135
420 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
422 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
424 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
425 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
429 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
435 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
437 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
439 Also some indentation fixes.
441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
443 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
445 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
446 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
447 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
448 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
449 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
450 Closes: #106514, #85520
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
454 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Typo, Closes: #104405
458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
460 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
462 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
466 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
468 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
472 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
478 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
480 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
482 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
484 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
486 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
487 change it in debhelper v4..
489 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
491 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
493 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
497 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
499 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
500 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
504 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
507 is not essential. Closes: #100430
509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
511 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
513 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
517 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
519 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
520 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
521 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
522 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
523 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
524 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
525 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
526 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
527 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
528 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
529 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
530 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
531 prefixed with ".debhelper")
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
535 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
537 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
538 look just like shared libs, but are not.
540 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
542 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
544 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
549 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
551 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
552 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
553 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
554 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
555 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
556 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
557 program those options go to. So, for example,
558 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
559 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
560 something complex. Closes: #89311
561 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
565 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
568 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
569 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
570 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
572 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
574 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
576 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
577 through loop. Closes: #98598
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
581 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
583 * Missing semi-colon.
584 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
585 this (dh_* should be called, really).
587 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
589 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
591 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
592 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
593 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
594 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
596 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
598 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
600 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
601 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
602 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
606 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
609 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
613 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
615 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
616 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
617 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
621 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
624 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
625 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
626 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
630 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
632 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
633 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
634 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
635 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
639 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
641 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
642 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
646 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
652 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
654 * Typo, Closes: #92407
656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
658 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
660 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
664 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
666 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
670 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
672 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
673 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
677 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
680 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
681 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
682 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
683 followed. Closes: #85483
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
687 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
689 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
690 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
691 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
695 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
697 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
698 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
699 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
700 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
701 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
702 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
703 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
704 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
705 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
706 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
707 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
708 Closes: #88464, #77743
709 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
710 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
711 us to deal with that gracefully.
712 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
714 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
715 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
716 a while, Closes: #51225
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
720 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
726 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
729 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
733 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
735 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
737 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
742 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
744 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
745 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
746 don't make packlist files.
747 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
748 debhelper coding standards.
749 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
750 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
754 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
756 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
757 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
761 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
764 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
765 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
766 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
767 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
768 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
769 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
770 but is mildly deprecated.
771 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
772 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
773 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
774 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
775 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
776 switching to statoverrides..
777 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
778 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
779 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
780 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
781 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
782 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
784 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
785 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
786 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
787 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
788 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
789 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
790 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
791 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
792 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
794 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
795 variable names, pod man pages).
796 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
797 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
798 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
799 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
800 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
801 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
802 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
806 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
812 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
819 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
821 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
822 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
826 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
828 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
829 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
830 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
832 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
834 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
836 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
837 they were previously ignored.
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
841 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
843 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
844 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
848 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
850 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
851 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
852 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
856 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
858 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
862 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
864 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
865 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
867 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
869 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
871 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
872 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
873 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
874 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
875 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
876 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
877 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
878 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
879 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
880 it is an obsolete program.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
884 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
886 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
890 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
894 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
896 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
900 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
902 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
904 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
906 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
910 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
916 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
918 * typo: Closes, #78567
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
922 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
924 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
928 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
930 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
934 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
936 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
937 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
938 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
939 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
940 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
941 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
945 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
947 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
948 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
953 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
956 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
957 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
958 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
959 backwards-compatability.
961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
963 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
965 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
966 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
967 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
968 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
969 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
970 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
971 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
973 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
974 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
975 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
977 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
979 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
980 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
981 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
982 should now be raised to severity important..
983 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
984 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
988 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
990 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
991 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
996 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
998 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1002 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1008 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1014 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1019 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1021 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1023 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1024 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1025 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1026 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1027 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1029 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1031 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1033 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1035 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1037 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1039 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1040 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1041 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1042 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1043 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1044 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1045 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1050 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1053 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1057 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1059 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1063 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1066 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1071 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1073 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1074 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1075 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1076 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1077 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1081 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1085 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1088 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1090 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1091 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1092 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1095 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1097 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1098 the TODO entry about it.
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1102 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1109 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1111 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1112 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1113 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1117 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1119 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1120 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1121 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1122 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1123 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1127 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1129 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1133 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1135 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1140 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1143 (this appears to be logal).
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1147 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1150 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1151 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1152 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1153 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1157 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1161 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1163 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1165 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1166 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1167 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1168 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1169 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1173 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1175 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1179 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1181 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1182 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1186 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1188 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1193 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1195 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1196 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1197 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1198 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1203 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1210 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1216 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1219 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1220 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1221 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1222 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1223 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1224 notice until v2 is complete.
1225 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1226 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1227 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1228 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1229 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1230 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1232 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1233 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1234 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1235 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1239 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1241 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1245 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1252 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1255 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1259 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1261 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1266 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1268 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1269 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1270 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1271 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1272 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1277 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1279 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1280 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1281 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1282 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1287 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1290 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1291 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1295 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1297 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1298 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1302 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1304 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1305 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1309 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1316 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1319 depend on the build and install targets.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1323 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1326 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1328 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1330 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1332 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1337 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1339 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1343 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1345 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1349 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1351 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1352 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1353 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1354 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1355 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1356 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1357 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1359 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1360 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1361 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1362 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1363 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1364 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1365 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1369 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1371 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1375 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1377 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1379 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1381 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1383 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1384 right place. Closes: #55065
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1388 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1395 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1398 * Copyright date updates.
1400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1402 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1404 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1405 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1410 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1412 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1416 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1418 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1423 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1429 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1431 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1435 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1441 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1444 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1445 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1446 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1447 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1448 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1449 bits until all files have been registered.
1451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1453 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * dh_installmanpages:
1456 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1457 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1458 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1459 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1460 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1461 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1462 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1463 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1464 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1465 otherwise change the result at all.
1467 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1468 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1469 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1470 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1471 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1476 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1480 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1482 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1484 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1485 act on files that don't exist.
1486 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1487 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1488 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1490 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1491 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1492 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1493 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1497 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1503 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1509 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1512 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1516 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1519 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1521 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1522 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1523 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1527 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1530 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1531 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1532 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1533 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1534 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1535 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1536 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1538 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1540 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1544 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1546 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1549 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1551 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1553 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1557 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1563 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1566 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1570 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1576 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1578 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1582 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1584 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1585 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1586 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1587 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1588 I made some changes, though:
1589 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1590 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1591 that is a clear violation of policy.
1592 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1593 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1594 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1595 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1596 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1597 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1598 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1599 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1600 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1602 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1606 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1612 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1614 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1615 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1619 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1621 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1622 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1623 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1628 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1630 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1634 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1641 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1644 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1645 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1646 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1647 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1648 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1649 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1650 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1654 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1656 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1660 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1664 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1665 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1669 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1671 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1675 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1678 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1682 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1684 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1685 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1686 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1690 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1692 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1697 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1701 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1705 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1707 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1708 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1709 for the dependancies to be generated.
1711 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1713 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1715 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1716 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1720 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1722 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1723 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1724 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1725 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1730 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1733 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1734 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1738 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1744 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1750 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1753 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1757 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1763 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1766 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1767 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1768 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1769 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1770 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1771 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1772 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1773 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1774 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1775 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1776 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1777 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1781 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1783 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1784 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1785 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1787 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1788 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1789 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1790 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1791 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1792 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1794 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1795 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1799 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1801 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1802 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1806 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1813 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1816 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1821 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1823 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1824 for building debhelper.
1825 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1829 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1836 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1839 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1841 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1843 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1845 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1846 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1847 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1848 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1849 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1850 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1851 it's always available.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1855 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1858 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1859 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1860 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1864 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1867 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1868 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1872 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1878 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1880 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1881 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1885 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1887 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1891 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1894 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1895 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1896 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1900 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1903 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1908 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1911 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1912 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1914 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1915 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1919 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1925 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1927 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1931 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1934 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1938 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1940 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1941 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1942 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1944 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1948 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1950 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1951 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1952 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1953 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1955 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1957 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1959 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1960 things if CDPATH is set.
1962 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1964 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1966 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1970 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1973 seems to make sense for the transition.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1977 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1980 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1985 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1987 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1988 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1989 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1993 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1996 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2000 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2002 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2003 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2004 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2005 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2006 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2010 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2016 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2018 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2019 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2020 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2021 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2022 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2023 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2024 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2025 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2026 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2027 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2028 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2033 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2036 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2037 * README: mention doc/v2
2038 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2039 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2043 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2045 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2046 be using this script RSN.
2048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2050 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2053 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2054 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2055 more than 1 init script.
2057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2059 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2061 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2062 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2066 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * Changed perl version detection.
2069 * Changed call to find.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2073 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2076 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2078 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2083 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Really include dh_installpam.
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2089 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2092 * Wrote man page for same.
2094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2096 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2098 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2099 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2100 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2105 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2107 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2112 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2114 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2115 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2116 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2117 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2118 x bit was being set!
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2122 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2125 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2126 well. (Closes: 38900)
2128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2130 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2132 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2133 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2134 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2136 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2138 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2140 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2144 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2146 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2151 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2153 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2157 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2160 help from Julian Gilbey.
2161 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2162 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2163 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2164 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2165 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2166 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2167 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2172 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2174 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2178 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2180 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2183 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2185 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2191 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2197 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2200 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2204 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2207 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2211 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2214 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2218 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2224 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2227 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2231 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2237 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2243 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2246 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2247 may be deleted. (#35845)
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2251 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Various man page enhancements.
2254 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2259 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2261 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2262 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2263 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2267 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2270 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2271 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2272 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2274 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2275 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2278 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2280 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2282 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2286 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2288 * Another very minor typo fix.
2290 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2292 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2294 * Very minor typo fix.
2296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2298 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2300 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2301 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2302 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2306 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2308 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2312 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2314 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2315 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2316 variables properly (#34850).
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2320 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2326 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2328 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2329 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2330 (automatically generated by build process).
2332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2334 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2336 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2340 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2342 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2343 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2344 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2346 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2350 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2353 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2357 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2359 * README: minor typo fix.
2361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2363 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2365 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2366 leave it at that. :-)
2368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2370 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2372 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2376 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2382 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2384 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2385 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2386 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2387 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2391 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2394 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2398 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2401 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2405 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2407 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2408 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2409 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2410 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2411 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2415 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2418 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2419 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2420 Craig Small for spotting this.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2424 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2427 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2428 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2432 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2434 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2438 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2441 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2443 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2445 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2447 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2448 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2449 working on the last version of debhelper.
2451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2453 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2455 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2456 being made. (#23255)
2458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2460 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2462 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2466 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2468 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2469 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2473 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2476 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2477 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2478 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2479 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2483 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2486 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2487 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2488 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2489 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2491 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2492 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2494 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2497 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2499 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2501 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2505 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2507 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2511 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2513 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2514 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2515 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2516 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2517 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2518 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2519 suidregister actually supports it.
2520 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2521 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2525 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2527 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2532 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2534 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2535 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2536 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2537 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2538 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2539 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2540 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2541 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2545 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2547 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2548 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2552 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2554 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2555 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2556 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2557 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2558 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2562 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2565 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2567 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2568 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2569 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2570 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2571 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2572 effect, either. (#30118)
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2576 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2580 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2582 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2585 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2586 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2590 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2596 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2599 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2600 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2601 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2602 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2606 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2608 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2609 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2610 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2614 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2616 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2620 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2623 packages, painlessly.
2625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2627 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2629 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2633 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2639 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2645 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2647 * The perl conversion is complete.
2649 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2651 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2652 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2653 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2658 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2660 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2661 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2662 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2663 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2667 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2669 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2670 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2672 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2674 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2675 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2679 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2681 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2682 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2683 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2687 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2689 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2693 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2696 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2697 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2698 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2699 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2700 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2704 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2706 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2707 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2708 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2709 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2710 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2714 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2717 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2721 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2724 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2725 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2726 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2727 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2728 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2729 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2730 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2731 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2733 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2735 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2737 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2741 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2743 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2744 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2745 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2746 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2751 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2754 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2758 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2760 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2761 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2763 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2765 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2767 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2768 sections of shared libraries.
2769 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2770 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2771 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2772 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2773 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2774 things you don't want them to.
2775 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2776 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2780 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2782 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2783 shared libraries. (#26414)
2785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2787 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2789 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2790 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2791 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2792 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2796 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2798 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2800 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2802 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2803 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2804 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2805 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2806 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2808 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2810 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2812 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2813 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2817 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2819 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2820 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2821 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2826 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2828 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2829 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2833 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2836 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2837 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2838 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2839 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2840 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2842 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2843 remove debian/files properly.
2844 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2845 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2846 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2847 * Removed bogus menu file.
2849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2851 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2853 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2854 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2856 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2858 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2860 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2861 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2862 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2863 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2864 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2865 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2866 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2870 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2873 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2874 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2875 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2876 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2878 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2880 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2882 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2885 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2887 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2889 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2890 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2891 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2893 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2894 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2895 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2896 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2897 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2898 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2902 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2904 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2905 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2906 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2907 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2908 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2909 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2910 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2911 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2912 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2913 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2914 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2915 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2916 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2917 passed any switches.
2918 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2922 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2924 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2925 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2926 at all for a long while.
2927 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2928 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2929 large chunks in the process.
2930 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2931 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2932 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2937 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2939 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2940 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2942 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2947 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2950 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2951 that don't always have the same files in them.
2952 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2953 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2954 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2958 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2960 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2962 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2963 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2964 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2965 updating 27 man pages.
2966 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2967 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2968 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2969 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2970 programs act on. (#25247)
2972 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2974 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2978 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2979 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2980 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2981 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2982 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2983 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2988 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2990 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2995 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2997 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3002 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3005 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3009 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3011 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3015 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3018 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3019 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3020 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3021 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3022 package by accident.
3023 * Is version 1.0 next?
3025 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3027 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3029 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3030 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3031 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3035 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3037 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3038 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3039 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3040 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3041 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3042 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3044 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3049 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3052 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3053 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3057 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3059 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3060 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3064 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3066 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3067 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3068 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3073 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3075 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3079 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3081 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3082 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3083 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3086 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3088 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3090 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3094 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3097 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3098 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3099 past week. Thanks, guys!
3101 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3102 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3103 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3104 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3105 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3106 would do in the same situation.
3107 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3108 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3110 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3112 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3113 permissions changed.
3114 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3115 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3116 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3117 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3118 files are treated identically.
3119 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3120 * Minor man page fixes.
3121 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3122 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3123 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3127 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3129 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3130 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3131 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3132 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3133 use -X multiple times, too.
3134 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3135 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3139 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3142 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3143 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3147 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3149 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3150 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3154 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3156 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3157 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3158 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3159 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3160 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3161 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3162 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3163 shape if you're starting a new package.
3165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3167 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3169 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3170 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3174 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3176 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3177 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3178 because of missing symlinks.
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3182 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3188 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3190 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3191 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3192 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3193 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3194 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3195 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3197 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3198 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3202 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3204 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3205 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3206 to be changed after the fact :-)
3207 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3211 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3213 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3214 no version string after the -V.
3216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3218 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3220 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3221 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3226 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3228 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3229 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3231 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3233 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3235 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3236 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3237 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3238 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3239 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3240 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3241 I always welcome corrections!
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3245 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3251 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3254 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3255 * Documented this new switch.
3257 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3259 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3261 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3262 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3263 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3264 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3265 no packages use the old behavior.
3267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3269 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3271 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3272 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3273 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3277 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3279 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3280 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3284 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3290 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3292 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3293 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3297 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3299 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3300 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3301 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3302 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3306 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3312 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3314 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3315 into the source package by accident.
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3319 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3322 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3323 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3324 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3325 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3326 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3327 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3332 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3334 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3336 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3337 inspired to implement some of it.
3338 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3342 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3345 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3349 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3352 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3353 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3357 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3359 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3360 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3361 have done.) (#17598)
3363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3365 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3367 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3371 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3373 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3377 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3379 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3380 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3384 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3386 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3387 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3388 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3392 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3394 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3395 argument processor in perl.
3396 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3397 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3398 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3399 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3403 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3406 type directories. (#16933)
3407 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3408 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3409 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3410 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3411 are supported. (#16935)
3412 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3417 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3420 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3424 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3428 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3429 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3430 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3431 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3432 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3433 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3435 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3437 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3439 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3440 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3441 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3443 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3444 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3445 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3446 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3447 a given package, or -i or -a.
3448 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3449 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3450 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3451 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3452 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3453 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3454 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3455 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3456 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3458 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3459 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3460 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3464 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3466 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3467 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3468 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3473 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3475 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3476 does not have a section.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3480 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3483 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3484 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3485 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3489 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * Fixed typo #16215.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3495 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3498 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3499 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3500 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3501 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3502 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3507 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3510 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3511 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3512 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3517 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3523 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3525 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3527 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3529 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3531 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3532 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3533 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3534 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3535 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3536 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3537 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3541 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3547 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3550 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3554 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3557 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3558 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3559 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3563 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3565 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3566 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3570 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3576 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3578 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3579 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3583 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3585 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3586 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3590 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3592 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3596 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3598 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3599 postinst, postrm, etc.
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3603 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3609 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3612 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3613 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3614 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3615 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3616 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3620 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3622 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3623 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3624 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3628 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3630 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3631 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3635 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3637 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3638 installing package files into.
3639 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3644 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3648 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3652 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3658 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3661 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3665 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3667 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3668 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3669 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3670 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3671 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3675 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3677 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3678 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3679 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3680 multiple binary packages.
3681 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3682 should rebuild them with this version.
3683 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3687 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3689 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3690 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3694 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3696 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3697 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3701 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3703 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3704 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3705 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3706 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3707 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3708 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3709 debian/README.debian.
3710 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3711 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3712 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3713 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3714 in a few situations.)
3716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3718 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3720 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3724 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3728 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3730 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3732 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3733 * Fixed several man pages.
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3737 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3740 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3741 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3745 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3747 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3748 is ready for general use.
3749 * Added man pages for all commands.
3750 * Multiple binary package support.
3751 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3752 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3753 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3755 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3756 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3757 auto-installed as parameters.
3758 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3760 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3763 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3764 the package build directory it is to act on.
3765 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3766 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3767 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3771 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3773 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3774 ready to replace debstd.
3776 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400