1 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
7 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
10 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
11 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
12 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
13 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
14 associated -dbg packages.
16 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
18 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
20 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
21 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
23 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
25 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
27 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
28 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
30 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
32 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
34 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
35 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
37 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
39 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
41 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
42 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
45 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
47 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
49 * Typo. Closes: #207999
50 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
52 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
54 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
57 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
62 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
65 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
69 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
71 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
73 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
74 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
75 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
76 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
77 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
78 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
79 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
80 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
81 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
82 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
84 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
86 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
88 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
89 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
92 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
94 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
96 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
97 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
98 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
102 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
105 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
106 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
111 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
113 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
114 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
118 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
120 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
121 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
123 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
125 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
127 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
128 out section number. Closes: #204731
130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
132 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
134 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
139 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
141 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
145 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
147 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
151 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
153 * Typo, Closes: #203907
154 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
155 removal. Closes: #204286
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
159 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
161 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
162 renaming. Closes: #203548
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
166 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
169 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
170 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
174 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
176 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
180 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
182 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
186 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
188 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
192 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
195 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
196 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
197 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
199 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
201 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
203 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
204 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
205 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
209 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
211 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
215 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
217 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
222 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
225 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
230 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
232 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
233 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
237 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
240 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
242 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
243 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
247 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
249 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
250 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
253 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
255 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
257 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
258 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
262 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
264 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
268 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
270 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
274 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
276 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
277 it break hard links (see #188663).
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
281 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
284 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
288 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
294 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
298 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
299 debconf-mergetemplates
301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
303 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
305 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
306 pod2man. Closes: #184013
308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
310 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
312 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
313 * Typo, Closes: #183267
315 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
317 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
319 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
320 * Update debhelper(1).
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
324 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
326 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
327 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
328 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
329 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
330 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
331 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
335 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
337 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
338 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
339 the shell. Closes: #178524
340 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
344 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
346 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
347 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
351 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
353 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
354 undocumented.7 links anymore.
356 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
358 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
360 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
361 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
362 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
363 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
364 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
369 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
371 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
372 files from installation.
374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
376 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
378 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
379 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
380 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
384 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
387 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
391 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
393 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
394 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
398 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
400 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
404 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
410 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
412 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
414 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
415 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
417 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
421 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
423 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
424 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
425 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
426 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
427 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
429 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
431 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
433 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
434 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
438 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
440 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
441 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
442 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
446 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
450 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
455 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
457 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
461 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
463 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
465 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
466 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
467 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
472 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
474 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
475 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
476 practice. Closes: #163303
478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
480 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
482 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
486 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
488 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
491 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
493 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
495 * The "reverse hangover" release.
496 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
498 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
499 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
500 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
501 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
502 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
504 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
506 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
508 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
509 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
514 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
520 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
527 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
529 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
530 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
535 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
537 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
539 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
541 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
543 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
547 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
549 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
553 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
555 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
560 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
562 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
563 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
564 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
565 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
566 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
571 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Typo, Closes: #155323
575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
577 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
579 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
584 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
586 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
587 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
588 * Removed dh_installxaw.
590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
592 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
594 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
595 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
596 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
597 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
598 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
599 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
603 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
605 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
606 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
608 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
613 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
615 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
616 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
620 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
622 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
623 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
624 right thing. Closes: #150644
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
628 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
631 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
635 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
637 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
642 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
645 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
646 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
651 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
655 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
657 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
659 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
660 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
664 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
666 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
667 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
668 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
671 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
673 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
675 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
676 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
678 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
680 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
682 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
684 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
686 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
688 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
689 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
690 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
692 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
694 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
696 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
700 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
702 * Removing perl warning message.
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
706 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
709 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
710 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
711 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
712 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
713 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
714 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
715 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
716 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
718 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
720 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
722 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
724 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
726 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
728 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
733 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
735 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
736 debconf-mergetemplate.
737 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
738 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
742 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
744 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
745 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
746 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
747 dh_install, which ...
748 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
749 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
750 mess, as it uses debian/install.
751 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
752 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
753 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
754 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
755 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
756 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
757 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
758 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
759 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
760 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
761 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
763 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
764 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
765 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
766 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
767 course there's -X ..)
768 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
769 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
770 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
772 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
773 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
774 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
775 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
776 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
781 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
787 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
789 * Typo, Closes: #139176
790 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
794 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
796 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
798 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
800 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
802 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
804 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
806 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
808 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
810 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
812 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
814 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
818 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
820 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
821 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
822 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
823 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
824 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
826 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
827 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
831 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
833 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
837 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
839 * Typo, Closes: #132454
840 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
842 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
844 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
846 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
847 upset. Closes: #131322
849 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
851 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
853 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
854 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
855 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
856 line, as well as in debian/rules.
857 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
858 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
859 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
860 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
861 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
862 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
863 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
864 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
865 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
866 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
867 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
868 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
870 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
872 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
874 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
876 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
877 - Better indenting of generated code.
878 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
882 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
884 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
886 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
887 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
888 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
889 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
890 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
891 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
892 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
896 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
898 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
899 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
903 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
905 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
906 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
907 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
908 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
909 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
910 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
911 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
912 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
913 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
914 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
915 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
916 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
917 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
918 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
919 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
920 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
925 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
927 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
931 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
933 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
934 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
935 * fixed dh_testdir man page
937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
939 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
941 * Typo, Closes: #122679
942 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
943 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
947 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
949 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
953 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
955 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
956 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
957 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
958 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
959 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
960 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
965 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
967 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
971 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
973 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
974 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
978 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
980 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
981 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
986 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
988 * Typo, Closes: #114135
990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
992 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
994 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
995 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
999 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1001 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1005 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1009 Also some indentation fixes.
1011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1013 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1015 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1016 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1017 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1018 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1019 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1020 Closes: #106514, #85520
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1024 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1030 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1032 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1036 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1040 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1042 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1044 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1048 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1054 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1057 change it in debhelper v4..
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1061 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1067 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1069 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1070 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1072 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1074 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1076 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1077 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1081 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1083 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1087 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1089 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1090 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1091 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1092 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1093 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1094 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1095 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1096 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1097 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1098 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1099 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1100 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1101 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1103 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1105 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1107 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1108 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1112 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1117 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1119 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1122 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1123 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1124 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1125 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1126 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1127 program those options go to. So, for example,
1128 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1129 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1130 something complex. Closes: #89311
1131 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1135 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1138 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1139 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1140 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1144 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1146 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1147 through loop. Closes: #98598
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1151 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Missing semi-colon.
1154 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1155 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1159 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1161 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1162 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1163 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1164 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1166 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1168 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1170 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1171 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1172 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1176 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1179 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1183 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1185 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1186 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1187 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1191 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1194 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1195 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1196 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1200 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1203 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1204 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1205 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1209 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1212 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1216 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1218 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1222 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1228 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1234 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1240 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1243 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1247 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1249 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1250 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1251 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1252 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1253 followed. Closes: #85483
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1257 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1259 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1260 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1261 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1265 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1268 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1269 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1270 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1271 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1272 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1273 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1274 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1275 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1276 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1277 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1278 Closes: #88464, #77743
1279 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1280 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1281 us to deal with that gracefully.
1282 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1284 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1285 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1286 a while, Closes: #51225
1288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1290 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1296 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1298 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1299 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1303 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1307 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1310 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1312 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1314 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1315 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1316 don't make packlist files.
1317 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1318 debhelper coding standards.
1319 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1320 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1324 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1326 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1327 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1331 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1333 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1334 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1335 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1336 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1337 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1338 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1339 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1340 but is mildly deprecated.
1341 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1342 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1343 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1344 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1345 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1346 switching to statoverrides..
1347 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1348 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1349 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1350 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1351 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1352 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1354 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1355 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1356 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1357 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1358 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1359 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1360 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1361 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1362 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1364 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1365 variable names, pod man pages).
1366 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1367 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1368 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1369 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1370 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1371 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1372 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1376 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1378 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1380 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1382 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1384 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1389 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1391 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1392 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1396 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1398 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1399 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1400 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1404 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1406 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1407 they were previously ignored.
1409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1411 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1413 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1414 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1418 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1420 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1421 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1422 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1426 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1428 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1432 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1434 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1435 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1439 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1441 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1442 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1443 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1444 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1445 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1446 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1447 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1448 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1449 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1450 it is an obsolete program.
1452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1454 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1456 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1460 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1462 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1464 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1466 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1468 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1470 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1472 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1474 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1476 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1480 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1484 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1486 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1488 * typo: Closes, #78567
1490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1492 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1498 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1500 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1504 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1507 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1508 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1509 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1510 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1511 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1515 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1518 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1523 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1525 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1526 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1527 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1528 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1529 backwards-compatability.
1531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1533 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1535 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1536 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1537 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1538 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1539 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1540 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1541 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1543 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1544 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1545 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1547 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1549 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1550 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1551 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1552 should now be raised to severity important..
1553 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1554 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1558 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1561 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1566 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1572 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1578 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1580 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1584 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1586 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1591 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1594 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1595 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1596 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1597 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1599 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1601 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1603 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1607 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1609 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1610 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1611 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1612 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1613 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1614 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1615 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1620 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1623 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1627 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1629 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1633 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1636 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1639 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1641 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1643 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1644 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1645 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1646 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1647 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1649 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1651 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1653 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1655 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1658 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1660 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1661 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1662 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1665 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1667 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1668 the TODO entry about it.
1670 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1672 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1674 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1677 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1679 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1682 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1683 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1687 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1689 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1690 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1691 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1692 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1693 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1697 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1701 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1703 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1705 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1710 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1712 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1713 (this appears to be logal).
1715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1717 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1719 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1720 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1721 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1722 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1723 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1727 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1733 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1735 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1736 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1737 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1738 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1739 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1741 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1743 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1745 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1747 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1749 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1751 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1752 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1756 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1758 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1763 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1765 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1766 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1767 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1768 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1773 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1775 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1780 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1786 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1788 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1789 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1790 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1791 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1792 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1793 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1794 notice until v2 is complete.
1795 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
1796 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
1797 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
1798 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
1799 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
1800 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
1802 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
1803 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
1804 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
1805 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
1809 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1815 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1817 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1822 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1824 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1825 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1829 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1831 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1834 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1836 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1838 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1839 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1840 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1841 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1842 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1847 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1850 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1851 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1852 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1857 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1859 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1860 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1861 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1863 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1865 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1867 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1868 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1872 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1875 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1879 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1886 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1889 depend on the build and install targets.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1893 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1896 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1898 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1900 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1902 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1907 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1913 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1915 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1919 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1921 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1922 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1923 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1924 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1925 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1926 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1927 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1929 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1930 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1931 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1932 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1933 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1934 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1935 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1937 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1939 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1941 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1945 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1947 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1949 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1951 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1953 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1954 right place. Closes: #55065
1956 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1958 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1960 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1965 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1967 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1968 * Copyright date updates.
1970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1972 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1974 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1975 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1978 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1980 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1984 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1986 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1988 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1991 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1993 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1995 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1997 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1999 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2001 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2005 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2007 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2011 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2013 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2014 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2015 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2016 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2017 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2018 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2019 bits until all files have been registered.
2021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2023 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2025 * dh_installmanpages:
2026 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2027 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2028 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2029 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2030 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2031 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2032 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2033 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2034 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2035 otherwise change the result at all.
2037 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2038 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2039 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2040 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2041 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2046 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2052 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2054 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2055 act on files that don't exist.
2056 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2057 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2058 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2060 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2061 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2062 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2063 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2067 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2069 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2073 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2079 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2082 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2086 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2088 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2089 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2091 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2092 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2093 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2097 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2100 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2101 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2102 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2103 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2104 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2105 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2106 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2108 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2110 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2114 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2116 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2121 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2123 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2125 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2127 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2129 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2133 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2135 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2136 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2140 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2142 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2146 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2148 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2152 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2154 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2155 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2156 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2157 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2158 I made some changes, though:
2159 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2160 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2161 that is a clear violation of policy.
2162 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2163 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2164 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2165 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2166 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2167 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2168 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2169 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2170 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2172 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2176 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2182 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2184 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2185 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2189 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2191 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2192 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2193 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2198 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2200 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2204 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2206 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2211 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2213 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2214 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2215 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2216 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2217 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2218 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2219 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2220 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2224 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2226 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2228 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2230 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2232 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2234 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2235 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2239 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2241 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2245 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2247 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2248 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2252 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2254 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2255 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2256 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2258 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2260 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2262 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2265 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2267 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2269 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2271 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2275 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2277 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2278 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2279 for the dependancies to be generated.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2283 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2286 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2290 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2293 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2294 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2295 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2300 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2302 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2303 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2304 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2308 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2314 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2320 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2323 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2327 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2329 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2333 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2336 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2337 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2338 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2339 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2340 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2341 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2342 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2343 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2344 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2345 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2346 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2347 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2349 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2351 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2353 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2354 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2355 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2357 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2358 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2359 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2360 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2361 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2362 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2364 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2365 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2369 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2371 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2372 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2376 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2378 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2383 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2385 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2386 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2389 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2391 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2393 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2394 for building debhelper.
2395 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2399 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2401 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2404 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2406 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2408 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2409 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2413 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2415 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2416 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2417 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2418 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2419 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2420 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2421 it's always available.
2423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2425 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2427 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2428 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2429 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2430 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2434 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2437 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2438 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2440 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2442 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2444 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2446 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2448 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2450 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2451 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2455 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2461 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2463 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2464 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2465 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2466 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2468 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2470 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2472 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2473 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2478 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2480 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2481 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2482 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2484 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2485 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2489 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2491 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2495 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2497 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2501 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2504 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2508 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2511 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2512 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2514 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2518 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2521 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2522 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2523 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2525 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2527 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2530 things if CDPATH is set.
2532 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2534 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2536 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2540 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2542 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2543 seems to make sense for the transition.
2545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2547 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2549 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2550 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2555 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2558 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2559 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2561 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2563 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2565 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2566 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2570 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2572 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2573 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2574 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2575 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2576 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2580 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2586 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2588 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2589 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2590 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2591 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2592 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2593 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2594 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2595 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2596 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2597 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2598 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2603 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2606 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2607 * README: mention doc/v2
2608 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2609 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2613 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2615 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2616 be using this script RSN.
2618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2620 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2622 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2623 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2624 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2625 more than 1 init script.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2629 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2632 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2636 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2638 * Changed perl version detection.
2639 * Changed call to find.
2641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2643 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2645 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2646 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2648 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2651 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2653 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2655 * Really include dh_installpam.
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2659 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2662 * Wrote man page for same.
2664 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2666 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2668 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2669 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2670 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2675 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2677 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2682 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2685 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2686 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2687 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2688 x bit was being set!
2690 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2692 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2694 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2695 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2696 well. (Closes: 38900)
2698 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2700 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2703 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2704 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2708 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2710 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2712 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2714 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2716 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2721 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2723 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2727 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2729 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2730 help from Julian Gilbey.
2731 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2732 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2733 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2734 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2735 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2736 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2737 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2740 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2742 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2744 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2748 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2755 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2761 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2767 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2770 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2774 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2777 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2781 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2783 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2784 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2788 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2790 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2794 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
2797 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
2799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
2801 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
2803 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
2807 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2813 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2815 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2816 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2817 may be deleted. (#35845)
2819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2821 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2823 * Various man page enhancements.
2824 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2829 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2832 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2833 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2837 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2839 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2840 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2841 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2842 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2844 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2845 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2848 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2850 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2852 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2854 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2856 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2858 * Another very minor typo fix.
2860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2862 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2864 * Very minor typo fix.
2866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2868 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2870 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2871 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2872 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2876 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2878 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2882 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2884 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2885 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2886 variables properly (#34850).
2888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2890 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2892 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2896 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2899 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2900 (automatically generated by build process).
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2904 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2906 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2910 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2912 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2913 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2914 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2916 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2920 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2923 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2927 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2929 * README: minor typo fix.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2933 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2936 leave it at that. :-)
2938 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2940 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2942 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2946 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2952 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2955 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2956 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2957 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2961 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2963 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2964 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2966 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2968 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2970 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2971 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2975 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2977 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2978 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2979 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2980 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2981 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2985 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2988 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2989 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2990 Craig Small for spotting this.
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2994 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2997 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2998 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3002 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3004 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3006 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3008 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3010 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3011 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3015 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3017 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3018 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3019 working on the last version of debhelper.
3021 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3023 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3025 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3026 being made. (#23255)
3028 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3030 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3032 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3036 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3039 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3043 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3046 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3047 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3048 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3049 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3051 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3053 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3055 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3056 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3057 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3058 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3059 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3061 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3062 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3064 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3069 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3071 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3075 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3077 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3079 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3081 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3083 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3084 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3085 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3086 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3087 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3088 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3089 suidregister actually supports it.
3090 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3091 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3093 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3095 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3097 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3102 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3104 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3105 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3106 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3107 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3108 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3109 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3110 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3111 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3113 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3115 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3117 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3118 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3122 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3124 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3125 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3126 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3127 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3128 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3130 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3132 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3134 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3135 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3137 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3138 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3139 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3140 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3141 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3142 effect, either. (#30118)
3144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3146 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3148 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3150 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3152 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3154 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3155 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3156 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3160 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3162 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3166 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3168 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3169 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3170 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3171 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3172 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3176 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3179 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3180 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3184 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3186 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3190 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3192 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3193 packages, painlessly.
3195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3197 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3199 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3203 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3205 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3209 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3211 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3215 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * The perl conversion is complete.
3219 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3221 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3222 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3223 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3228 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3230 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3231 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3232 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3233 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3237 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3240 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3242 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3244 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3245 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3249 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3251 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3252 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3253 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3257 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3263 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3265 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3266 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3267 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3268 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3269 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3270 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3272 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3274 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3276 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3277 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3278 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3279 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3280 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3284 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3287 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3291 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3293 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3294 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3295 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3296 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3297 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3298 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3299 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3300 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3301 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3305 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3307 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3311 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3313 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3314 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3315 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3316 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3321 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3323 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3324 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3328 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3330 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3331 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3335 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3338 sections of shared libraries.
3339 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3340 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3341 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3342 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3343 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3344 things you don't want them to.
3345 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3346 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3350 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3353 shared libraries. (#26414)
3355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3357 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3359 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3360 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3361 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3362 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3364 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3366 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3368 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3370 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3372 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3373 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3374 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3375 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3376 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3380 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3383 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3387 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3390 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3391 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3396 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3398 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3399 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3403 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3406 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3407 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3408 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3409 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3410 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3412 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3413 remove debian/files properly.
3414 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3415 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3416 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3417 * Removed bogus menu file.
3419 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3421 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3423 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3424 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3428 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3430 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3431 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3432 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3433 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3434 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3435 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3436 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3440 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3442 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3443 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3444 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3445 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3446 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3448 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3450 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3452 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3455 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3457 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3459 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3460 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3461 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3463 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3464 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3465 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3466 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3467 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3468 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3472 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3474 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3475 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3476 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3477 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3478 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3479 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3480 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3481 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3482 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3483 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3484 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3485 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3486 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3487 passed any switches.
3488 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3492 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3494 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3495 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3496 at all for a long while.
3497 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3498 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3499 large chunks in the process.
3500 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3501 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3502 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3507 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3509 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3510 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3512 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3517 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3519 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3520 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3521 that don't always have the same files in them.
3522 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3523 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3524 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3528 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3530 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3532 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3533 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3534 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3535 updating 27 man pages.
3536 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3537 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3538 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3539 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3540 programs act on. (#25247)
3542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3544 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3548 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3549 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3550 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3551 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3552 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3553 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3558 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3560 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3565 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3567 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3572 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3574 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3575 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3577 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3579 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3581 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3585 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3587 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3588 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3589 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3590 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3591 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3592 package by accident.
3593 * Is version 1.0 next?
3595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3597 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3599 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3600 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3601 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3603 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3605 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3607 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3608 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3609 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3610 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3611 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3612 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3614 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3617 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3619 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3621 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3622 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3623 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3625 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3627 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3629 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3630 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3632 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3634 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3636 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3637 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3638 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3643 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3645 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3649 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3651 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3652 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3653 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3658 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3660 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3664 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3666 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3667 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3668 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3669 past week. Thanks, guys!
3671 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3672 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3673 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3674 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3675 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3676 would do in the same situation.
3677 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3678 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3680 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3682 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3683 permissions changed.
3684 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3685 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3686 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3687 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3688 files are treated identically.
3689 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3690 * Minor man page fixes.
3691 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3692 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3693 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3697 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3699 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3700 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3701 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3702 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3703 use -X multiple times, too.
3704 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3705 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3707 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3709 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3711 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3712 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3713 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3717 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3719 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3720 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3724 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3726 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3727 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3728 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3729 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3730 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3731 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3732 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3733 shape if you're starting a new package.
3735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3737 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3739 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3740 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3744 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3746 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3747 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3748 because of missing symlinks.
3750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3752 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3754 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3758 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3760 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3761 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3762 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3763 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3764 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3765 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3767 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3768 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3770 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3772 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3774 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3775 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3776 to be changed after the fact :-)
3777 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3781 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3783 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3784 no version string after the -V.
3786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3788 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3790 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3791 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
3796 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
3798 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
3799 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
3801 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
3803 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
3805 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
3806 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
3807 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
3808 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
3809 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
3810 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3811 I always welcome corrections!
3813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3815 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3817 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3819 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3821 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3823 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3824 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3825 * Documented this new switch.
3827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3829 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3831 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3832 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3833 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3834 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3835 no packages use the old behavior.
3837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3839 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3841 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3842 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3843 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3847 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3850 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3854 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3856 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3860 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3862 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3863 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3865 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3867 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3869 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3870 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3871 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3872 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3876 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3878 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3880 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3882 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3884 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3885 into the source package by accident.
3887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3889 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3891 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3892 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3893 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3894 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3895 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3896 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3897 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3900 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3902 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3904 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3906 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3907 inspired to implement some of it.
3908 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3912 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3914 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3915 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3917 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3919 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3921 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3922 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3923 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3927 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3929 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3930 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3931 have done.) (#17598)
3933 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3935 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3937 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3941 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3947 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3949 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3950 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3952 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3954 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3956 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3957 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3958 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3962 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3965 argument processor in perl.
3966 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3967 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3968 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3969 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3973 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3975 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3976 type directories. (#16933)
3977 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3978 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3979 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3980 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3981 are supported. (#16935)
3982 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3987 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3989 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3990 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3994 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3996 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3998 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3999 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4000 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4001 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4002 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4003 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4007 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4010 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4011 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4013 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4014 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4015 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4016 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4017 a given package, or -i or -a.
4018 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4019 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4020 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4021 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4022 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4023 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4024 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4025 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4026 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4028 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4029 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4030 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4032 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4034 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4036 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4037 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4038 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4043 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4046 does not have a section.
4048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4050 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4052 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4053 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4054 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4055 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4059 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4061 * Fixed typo #16215.
4063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4065 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4067 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4068 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4069 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4070 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4071 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4072 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4077 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4079 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4080 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4081 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4082 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4085 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4087 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4089 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4093 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4099 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4101 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4102 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4103 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4104 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4105 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4106 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4107 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4111 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4113 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4117 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4119 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4120 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4124 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4126 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4127 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4128 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4129 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4131 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4133 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4135 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4136 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4140 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4142 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4144 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4146 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4148 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4149 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4153 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4155 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4156 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4160 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4162 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4166 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4169 postinst, postrm, etc.
4171 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4173 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4175 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4179 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4181 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4182 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4183 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4184 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4185 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4186 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4190 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4192 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4193 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4194 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4198 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4201 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4205 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4207 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4208 installing package files into.
4209 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4212 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4214 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4216 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4218 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4222 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4224 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4228 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4230 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4231 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4235 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4237 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4238 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4239 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4240 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4241 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4245 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4247 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4248 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4249 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4250 multiple binary packages.
4251 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4252 should rebuild them with this version.
4253 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4257 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4259 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4260 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4264 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4266 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4267 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4271 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4273 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4274 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4275 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4276 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4277 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4278 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4279 debian/README.debian.
4280 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4281 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4282 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4283 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4284 in a few situations.)
4286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4288 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4290 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4294 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4296 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4300 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4302 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4303 * Fixed several man pages.
4305 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4307 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4309 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4310 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4311 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4315 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4318 is ready for general use.
4319 * Added man pages for all commands.
4320 * Multiple binary package support.
4321 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4322 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4323 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4325 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4326 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4327 auto-installed as parameters.
4328 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4330 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4333 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4334 the package build directory it is to act on.
4335 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4336 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4337 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4341 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4343 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4344 ready to replace debstd.
4346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400