1 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
5 right thing. Closes: #150644
7 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:21:06 -0400
9 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
12 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
14 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
16 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
18 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
21 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
23 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
25 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
26 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
27 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
32 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
34 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
36 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
38 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
40 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
41 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
43 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
45 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
47 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
48 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
49 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
54 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
56 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
57 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
61 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
63 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
65 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
67 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
69 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
70 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
71 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
73 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
75 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
77 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
79 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
81 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
83 * Removing perl warning message.
85 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
87 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
89 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
90 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
91 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
92 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
93 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
94 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
95 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
96 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
97 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
99 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
101 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
103 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
107 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
109 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
114 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
117 debconf-mergetemplate.
118 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
119 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
123 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
125 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
126 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
127 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
128 dh_install, which ...
129 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
130 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
131 mess, as it uses debian/install.
132 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
133 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
134 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
135 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
136 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
137 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
138 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
139 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
140 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
141 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
142 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
144 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
145 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
146 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
147 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
148 course there's -X ..)
149 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
150 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
151 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
153 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
154 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
155 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
156 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
157 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
162 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
164 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
168 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
170 * Typo, Closes: #139176
171 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
175 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
181 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
185 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
187 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
189 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
191 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
193 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
195 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
199 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
201 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
202 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
203 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
204 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
205 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
207 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
208 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
212 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
214 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
218 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
220 * Typo, Closes: #132454
221 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
225 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
227 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
228 upset. Closes: #131322
230 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
232 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
234 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
235 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
236 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
237 line, as well as in debian/rules.
238 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
239 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
240 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
241 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
242 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
243 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
244 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
245 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
246 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
247 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
248 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
249 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
251 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
255 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
258 - Better indenting of generated code.
259 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
263 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
265 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
267 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
268 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
269 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
270 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
271 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
272 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
273 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
277 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
279 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
280 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
284 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
286 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
287 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
288 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
289 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
290 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
291 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
292 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
293 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
294 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
295 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
296 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
297 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
298 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
299 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
300 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
301 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
306 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
312 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
314 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
315 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
316 * fixed dh_testdir man page
318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
320 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
322 * Typo, Closes: #122679
323 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
324 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
328 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
330 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
332 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
334 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
336 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
337 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
338 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
339 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
340 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
341 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
346 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
348 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
352 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
355 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
357 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
359 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
361 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
362 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
367 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
369 * Typo, Closes: #114135
371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
373 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
375 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
376 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
380 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
386 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
388 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
390 Also some indentation fixes.
392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
394 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
396 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
397 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
398 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
399 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
400 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
401 Closes: #106514, #85520
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
405 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Typo, Closes: #104405
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
411 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
413 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
417 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
419 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
423 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
425 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
429 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
433 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
435 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
437 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
438 change it in debhelper v4..
440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
442 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
444 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
448 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
450 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
451 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
455 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
457 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
458 is not essential. Closes: #100430
460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
462 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
464 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
468 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
470 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
471 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
472 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
473 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
474 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
475 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
476 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
477 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
478 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
479 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
480 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
481 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
482 prefixed with ".debhelper")
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
486 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
488 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
489 look just like shared libs, but are not.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
493 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
495 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
500 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
502 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
503 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
504 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
505 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
506 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
507 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
508 program those options go to. So, for example,
509 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
510 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
511 something complex. Closes: #89311
512 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
516 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
518 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
519 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
520 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
521 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
525 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
527 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
528 through loop. Closes: #98598
530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
532 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
534 * Missing semi-colon.
535 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
536 this (dh_* should be called, really).
538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
540 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
542 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
543 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
544 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
545 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
547 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
549 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
551 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
552 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
553 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
557 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
559 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
560 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
562 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
564 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
566 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
567 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
568 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
572 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
574 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
575 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
576 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
577 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
579 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
581 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
583 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
584 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
585 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
586 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
590 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
592 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
593 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
597 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
603 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Typo, Closes: #92407
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
609 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
611 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
615 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
617 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
621 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
623 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
624 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
628 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
630 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
631 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
632 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
633 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
634 followed. Closes: #85483
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
638 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
640 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
641 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
642 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
646 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
648 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
649 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
650 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
651 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
652 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
653 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
654 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
655 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
656 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
657 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
658 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
659 Closes: #88464, #77743
660 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
661 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
662 us to deal with that gracefully.
663 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
665 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
666 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
667 a while, Closes: #51225
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
671 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
677 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
679 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
680 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
684 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
686 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
688 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
693 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
695 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
696 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
697 don't make packlist files.
698 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
699 debhelper coding standards.
700 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
701 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
705 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
707 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
708 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
712 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
715 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
716 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
717 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
718 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
719 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
720 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
721 but is mildly deprecated.
722 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
723 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
724 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
725 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
726 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
727 switching to statoverrides..
728 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
729 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
730 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
731 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
732 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
733 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
735 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
736 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
737 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
738 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
739 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
740 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
741 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
742 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
743 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
745 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
746 variable names, pod man pages).
747 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
748 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
749 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
750 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
751 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
752 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
753 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
757 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
763 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
765 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
770 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
772 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
773 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
777 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
779 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
780 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
781 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
783 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
785 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
787 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
788 they were previously ignored.
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
792 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
794 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
795 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
797 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
799 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
801 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
802 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
803 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
807 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
809 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
813 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
815 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
816 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
818 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
820 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
822 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
823 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
824 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
825 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
826 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
827 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
828 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
829 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
830 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
831 it is an obsolete program.
833 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
835 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
837 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
839 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
841 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
843 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
845 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
847 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
851 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
853 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
855 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
857 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
861 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
867 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
869 * typo: Closes, #78567
871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
873 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
875 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
879 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
881 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
885 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
887 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
888 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
889 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
890 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
891 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
892 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
896 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
898 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
899 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
904 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
907 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
908 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
909 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
910 backwards-compatability.
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
914 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
916 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
917 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
918 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
919 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
920 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
921 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
922 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
924 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
925 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
926 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
928 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
930 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
931 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
932 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
933 should now be raised to severity important..
934 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
935 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
939 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
942 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
947 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Typo, Closes: #77441
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
953 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
955 * Completed the fix from the last version.
957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
959 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
961 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
965 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
967 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
972 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
974 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
975 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
976 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
977 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
978 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
980 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
982 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
984 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
986 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
988 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
990 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
991 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
992 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
993 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
994 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
995 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
996 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1001 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1003 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1004 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1008 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1010 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1012 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1014 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1016 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1017 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1022 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1025 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1026 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1027 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1028 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1032 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1034 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1036 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1039 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1041 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1042 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1043 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1046 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1048 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1049 the TODO entry about it.
1051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1053 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1055 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1060 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1062 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1063 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1064 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1068 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1071 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1072 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1073 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1074 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1078 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1082 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1084 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1086 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1091 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1094 (this appears to be logal).
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1098 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1101 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1102 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1103 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1104 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1108 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1114 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1116 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1117 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1118 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1119 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1120 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1124 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1126 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1130 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1132 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1133 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1137 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1139 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1144 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1147 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1148 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1149 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1154 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1161 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1167 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1169 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1170 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1171 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1172 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1173 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1174 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1175 notice until v2 is complete.
1176 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1177 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1178 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1179 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1180 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1181 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1183 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1184 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1185 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1186 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1190 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1196 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1203 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1206 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1210 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1212 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1217 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1220 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1221 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1222 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1223 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1228 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1231 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1232 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1233 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1238 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1241 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1242 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1246 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1249 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1251 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1253 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1255 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1256 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1260 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1262 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1267 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1269 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1270 depend on the build and install targets.
1272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1274 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1276 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1277 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1281 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1288 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1290 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1294 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1300 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1302 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1303 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1304 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1305 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1306 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1307 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1308 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1310 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1311 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1312 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1313 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1314 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1315 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1316 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1320 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1322 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1326 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1328 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1330 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1332 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1334 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1335 right place. Closes: #55065
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1339 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1344 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1346 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1349 * Copyright date updates.
1351 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1353 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1355 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1356 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1359 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1361 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1363 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1365 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1367 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1372 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1374 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1376 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1380 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1386 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1392 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1394 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1395 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1396 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1397 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1398 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1399 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1400 bits until all files have been registered.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1404 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_installmanpages:
1407 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1408 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1409 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1410 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1411 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1412 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1413 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1414 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1415 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1416 otherwise change the result at all.
1418 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1419 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1420 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1421 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1422 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1425 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1427 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1433 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1436 act on files that don't exist.
1437 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1438 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1439 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1441 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1442 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1443 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1444 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1448 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1450 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1454 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1456 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1460 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1463 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1467 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1469 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1470 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1472 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1473 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1474 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1478 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1480 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1481 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1482 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1483 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1484 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1485 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1486 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1487 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1489 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1491 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1495 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1497 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1500 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1502 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1504 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1508 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1510 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1514 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1516 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1517 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1521 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1523 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1527 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1529 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1533 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1536 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1537 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1538 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1539 I made some changes, though:
1540 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1541 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1542 that is a clear violation of policy.
1543 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1544 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1545 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1546 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1547 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1548 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1549 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1550 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1551 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1553 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1557 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1559 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1563 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1565 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1566 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1570 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1572 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1573 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1574 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1579 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1581 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1585 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1592 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1594 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1595 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1596 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1597 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1598 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1599 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1600 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1601 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1605 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1607 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1609 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1611 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1613 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1615 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1616 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1620 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1626 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1628 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1629 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1633 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1636 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1637 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1641 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1643 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1646 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1648 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1650 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1652 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1654 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1656 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1658 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1659 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1660 for the dependancies to be generated.
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1664 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1667 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1671 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1674 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1675 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1676 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1681 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1683 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1684 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1685 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1689 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1691 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1693 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1695 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1699 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1701 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1703 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1704 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1708 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1714 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1716 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1717 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1718 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1719 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1720 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1721 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1722 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1723 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1724 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1725 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1726 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1727 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1728 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1732 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1734 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1735 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1736 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1738 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1739 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1740 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1741 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1742 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1743 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1745 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1746 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1748 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1750 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1752 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1753 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1757 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1759 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1764 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1767 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1772 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1774 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1775 for building debhelper.
1776 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1780 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1787 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1790 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1794 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1797 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1798 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1799 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1800 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1801 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1802 it's always available.
1804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1806 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1808 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1809 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1810 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1811 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1818 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1819 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1823 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1825 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1829 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1832 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1836 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1842 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1845 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1846 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1847 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1849 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1851 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1853 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1854 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1857 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1859 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1861 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1862 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1863 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1865 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1866 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1870 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1872 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1876 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1882 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1884 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1885 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1889 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1892 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1893 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1895 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1899 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1902 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1903 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1904 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1908 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1910 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1911 things if CDPATH is set.
1913 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1915 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1917 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1921 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1924 seems to make sense for the transition.
1926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1928 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1930 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1931 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1934 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1936 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1938 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1939 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1940 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1944 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1946 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1947 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1951 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1954 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1955 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1956 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1957 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1961 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1967 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1970 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1971 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1972 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1973 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1974 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1975 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1976 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1977 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1978 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1979 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1984 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1987 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1988 * README: mention doc/v2
1989 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1990 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1994 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1996 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1997 be using this script RSN.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2001 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2004 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2005 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2006 more than 1 init script.
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2010 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2013 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2017 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2019 * Changed perl version detection.
2020 * Changed call to find.
2022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2024 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2026 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2027 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2029 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2034 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2036 * Really include dh_installpam.
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2040 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2043 * Wrote man page for same.
2045 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2047 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2049 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2050 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2051 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2056 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2058 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2063 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2065 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2066 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2067 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2068 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2069 x bit was being set!
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2073 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2076 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2077 well. (Closes: 38900)
2079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2081 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2083 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2084 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2085 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2089 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2091 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2095 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2097 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2102 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2104 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2108 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2110 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2111 help from Julian Gilbey.
2112 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2113 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2114 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2115 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2116 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2117 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2118 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2123 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2129 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2136 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2142 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2144 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2148 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2151 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2155 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2158 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2162 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2165 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2169 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2175 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2177 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2178 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2182 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2188 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2190 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2194 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2196 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2197 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2198 may be deleted. (#35845)
2200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2202 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2204 * Various man page enhancements.
2205 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2210 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2212 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2213 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2214 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2216 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2218 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2220 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2221 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2222 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2223 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2225 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2226 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2231 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2233 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2237 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * Another very minor typo fix.
2241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2243 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2245 * Very minor typo fix.
2247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2249 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2251 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2252 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2253 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2257 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2263 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2265 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2266 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2267 variables properly (#34850).
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2271 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2277 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2280 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2281 (automatically generated by build process).
2283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2285 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2287 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2291 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2294 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2295 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2297 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2301 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2304 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2308 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * README: minor typo fix.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2314 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2317 leave it at that. :-)
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2321 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2327 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2333 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2336 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2337 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2338 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2342 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2345 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2349 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2352 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2356 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2359 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2360 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2361 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2362 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2366 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2368 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2369 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2370 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2371 Craig Small for spotting this.
2373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2375 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2377 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2378 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2379 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2383 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2389 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2392 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2396 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2398 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2399 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2400 working on the last version of debhelper.
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2404 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2407 being made. (#23255)
2409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2411 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2413 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2417 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2420 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2424 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2426 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2427 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2428 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2429 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2430 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2434 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2437 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2438 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2439 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2440 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2442 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2443 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2445 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2450 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2452 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2456 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2462 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2464 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2465 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2466 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2467 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2468 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2469 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2470 suidregister actually supports it.
2471 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2472 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2474 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2476 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2478 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2483 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2485 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2486 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2487 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2488 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2489 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2490 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2491 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2492 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2496 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2498 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2499 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2503 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2505 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2506 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2507 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2508 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2509 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2513 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2515 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2516 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2518 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2519 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2520 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2521 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2522 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2523 effect, either. (#30118)
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2527 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2533 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2536 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2537 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2541 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2543 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2547 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2550 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2551 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2552 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2553 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2555 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2557 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2559 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2560 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2561 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2565 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2567 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2571 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2573 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2574 packages, painlessly.
2576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2578 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2580 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2584 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2586 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2588 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2590 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2592 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2594 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2596 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2598 * The perl conversion is complete.
2600 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2602 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2603 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2604 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2609 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2611 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2612 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2613 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2614 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2616 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2618 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2620 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2621 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2623 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2625 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2626 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2630 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2632 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2633 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2634 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2638 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2644 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2646 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2647 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2648 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2649 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2650 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2651 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2653 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2655 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2657 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2658 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2659 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2660 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2661 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2665 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2668 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2672 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2675 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2676 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2677 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2678 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2679 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2680 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2681 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2682 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2686 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2688 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2692 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2695 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2696 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2697 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2702 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2705 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2709 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2711 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2712 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2716 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2718 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2719 sections of shared libraries.
2720 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2721 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2722 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2723 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2724 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2725 things you don't want them to.
2726 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2727 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2731 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2734 shared libraries. (#26414)
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2738 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2740 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2741 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2742 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2743 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2747 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2751 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2753 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2754 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2755 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2756 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2757 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2761 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2764 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2768 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2771 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2772 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2777 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2779 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2780 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2784 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2787 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2788 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2789 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2790 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2791 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2793 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2794 remove debian/files properly.
2795 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2796 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2797 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2798 * Removed bogus menu file.
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2802 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2805 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2809 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2811 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2812 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2813 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2814 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2815 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2816 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2817 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2821 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2824 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2825 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2826 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2827 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2831 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2833 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2838 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2841 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2842 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2844 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2845 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2846 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2847 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2848 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2849 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2853 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2856 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2857 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2858 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2859 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2860 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2861 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2862 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2863 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2864 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2865 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2866 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2867 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2868 passed any switches.
2869 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2871 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2873 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2875 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2876 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2877 at all for a long while.
2878 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2879 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2880 large chunks in the process.
2881 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2882 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2883 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2886 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2888 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2890 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2891 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2893 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2898 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2901 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2902 that don't always have the same files in them.
2903 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2904 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2905 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2907 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2909 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2911 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2913 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2914 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2915 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2916 updating 27 man pages.
2917 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2918 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2919 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2920 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2921 programs act on. (#25247)
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2925 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2929 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2930 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2931 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2932 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2933 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2934 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2939 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2941 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2946 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2953 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2955 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2956 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2960 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2962 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2964 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2966 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2968 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2969 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2970 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2971 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2972 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2973 package by accident.
2974 * Is version 1.0 next?
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2978 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2981 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2982 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2986 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2988 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2989 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2990 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2991 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2992 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2993 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2995 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3000 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3002 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3003 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3004 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3008 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3011 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3015 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3017 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3018 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3019 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3024 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3030 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3033 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3034 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3039 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3041 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3045 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3047 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3048 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3049 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3050 past week. Thanks, guys!
3052 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3053 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3054 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3055 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3056 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3057 would do in the same situation.
3058 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3059 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3061 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3063 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3064 permissions changed.
3065 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3066 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3067 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3068 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3069 files are treated identically.
3070 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3071 * Minor man page fixes.
3072 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3073 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3074 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3078 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3081 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3082 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3083 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3084 use -X multiple times, too.
3085 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3086 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3090 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3092 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3093 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3094 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3098 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3100 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3101 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3105 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3107 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3108 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3109 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3110 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3111 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3112 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3113 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3114 shape if you're starting a new package.
3116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3118 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3120 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3121 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3125 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3128 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3129 because of missing symlinks.
3131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3133 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3135 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3139 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3142 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3143 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3144 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3145 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3146 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3148 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3149 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3153 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3155 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3156 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3157 to be changed after the fact :-)
3158 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3162 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3164 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3165 no version string after the -V.
3167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3169 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3171 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3172 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3177 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3179 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3180 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3184 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3187 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3188 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3189 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3190 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3191 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3192 I always welcome corrections!
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3196 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3202 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3204 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3205 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3206 * Documented this new switch.
3208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3210 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3212 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3213 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3214 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3215 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3216 no packages use the old behavior.
3218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3220 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3222 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3223 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3224 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3228 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3231 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3235 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3237 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3241 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3243 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3244 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3248 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3251 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3252 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3253 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3257 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3263 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3266 into the source package by accident.
3268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3270 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3272 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3273 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3274 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3275 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3276 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3277 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3278 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3283 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3285 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3287 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3288 inspired to implement some of it.
3289 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3291 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3293 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3295 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3296 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3300 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3303 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3304 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3308 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3310 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3311 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3312 have done.) (#17598)
3314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3316 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3318 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3322 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3328 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3331 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3335 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3338 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3339 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3343 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3345 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3346 argument processor in perl.
3347 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3348 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3349 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3350 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3354 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3356 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3357 type directories. (#16933)
3358 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3359 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3360 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3361 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3362 are supported. (#16935)
3363 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3368 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3371 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3373 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3375 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3377 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3379 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3380 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3381 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3382 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3383 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3384 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3388 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3391 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3392 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3394 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3395 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3396 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3397 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3398 a given package, or -i or -a.
3399 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3400 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3401 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3402 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3403 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3404 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3405 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3406 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3407 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3409 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3410 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3411 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3415 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3417 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3418 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3419 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3424 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3427 does not have a section.
3429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3431 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3433 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3434 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3435 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3436 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3440 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * Fixed typo #16215.
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3446 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3449 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3450 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3451 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3452 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3453 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3456 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3458 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3460 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3461 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3462 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3463 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3468 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3470 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3474 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3476 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3480 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3482 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3483 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3484 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3485 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3486 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3487 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3488 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3492 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3498 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3500 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3501 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3503 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3505 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3507 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3508 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3509 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3510 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3514 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3516 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3517 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3521 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3523 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3527 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3529 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3530 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3534 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3536 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3537 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3541 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3543 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3547 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3549 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3550 postinst, postrm, etc.
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3554 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3560 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3562 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3563 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3564 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3565 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3566 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3567 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3571 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3573 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3574 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3575 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3579 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3582 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3586 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3588 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3589 installing package files into.
3590 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3595 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3597 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3599 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3603 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3605 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3609 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3611 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3612 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3614 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3616 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3618 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3619 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3620 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3621 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3622 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3624 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3626 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3628 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3629 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3630 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3631 multiple binary packages.
3632 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3633 should rebuild them with this version.
3634 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3638 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3640 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3641 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3645 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3647 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3648 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3652 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3654 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3655 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3656 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3657 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3658 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3659 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3660 debian/README.debian.
3661 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3662 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3663 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3664 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3665 in a few situations.)
3667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3669 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3671 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3675 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3677 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3681 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3683 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3684 * Fixed several man pages.
3686 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3688 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3690 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3691 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3692 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3696 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3699 is ready for general use.
3700 * Added man pages for all commands.
3701 * Multiple binary package support.
3702 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3703 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3704 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3706 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3707 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3708 auto-installed as parameters.
3709 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3711 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3714 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3715 the package build directory it is to act on.
3716 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3717 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3718 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3722 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3724 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3725 ready to replace debstd.
3727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400