1 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
3 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
7 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
9 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
10 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
11 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
12 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
13 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
15 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
16 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
18 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
20 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
22 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
24 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
26 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
28 * Typo, Closes: #132454
29 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
31 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
33 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
35 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
36 upset. Closes: #131322
38 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
40 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
43 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
44 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
45 line, as well as in debian/rules.
46 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
47 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
48 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
49 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
50 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
51 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
52 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
53 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
54 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
55 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
56 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
57 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
59 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
61 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
63 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
65 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
66 - Better indenting of generated code.
67 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
69 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
71 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
73 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
75 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
76 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
77 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
78 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
79 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
80 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
81 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
83 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
85 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
87 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
88 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
90 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
92 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
94 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
95 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
96 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
97 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
98 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
99 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
100 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
101 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
102 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
103 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
104 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
105 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
106 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
107 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
108 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
109 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
114 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
116 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
120 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
122 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
123 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
124 * fixed dh_testdir man page
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
128 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
130 * Typo, Closes: #122679
131 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
132 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
136 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
138 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
142 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
144 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
145 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
146 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
147 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
148 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
149 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
154 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
156 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
158 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
160 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
162 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
163 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
165 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
167 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
169 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
170 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
175 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
177 * Typo, Closes: #114135
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
181 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
183 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
184 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
188 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
190 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
194 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
196 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
198 Also some indentation fixes.
200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
202 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
204 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
205 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
206 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
207 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
208 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
209 Closes: #106514, #85520
211 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
213 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
215 * Typo, Closes: #104405
217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
219 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
221 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
225 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
227 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
229 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
231 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
233 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
237 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
239 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
243 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
245 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
246 change it in debhelper v4..
248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
250 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
252 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
256 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
258 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
259 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
263 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
265 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
266 is not essential. Closes: #100430
268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
270 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
276 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
278 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
279 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
280 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
281 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
282 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
283 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
284 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
285 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
286 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
287 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
288 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
289 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
290 prefixed with ".debhelper")
292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
294 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
296 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
297 look just like shared libs, but are not.
299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
301 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
303 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
308 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
311 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
312 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
313 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
314 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
315 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
316 program those options go to. So, for example,
317 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
318 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
319 something complex. Closes: #89311
320 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
322 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
324 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
326 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
327 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
328 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
329 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
333 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
336 through loop. Closes: #98598
338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
340 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
342 * Missing semi-colon.
343 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
344 this (dh_* should be called, really).
346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
348 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
350 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
351 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
352 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
353 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
357 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
359 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
360 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
361 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
365 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
367 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
368 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
372 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
374 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
375 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
376 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
380 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
382 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
383 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
384 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
385 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
389 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
391 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
392 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
393 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
394 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
398 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
400 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
401 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
405 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
407 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
411 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
413 * Typo, Closes: #92407
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
417 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
419 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
421 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
423 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
425 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
429 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
432 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
436 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
438 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
439 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
440 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
441 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
442 followed. Closes: #85483
444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
446 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
448 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
449 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
450 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
452 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
454 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
456 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
457 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
458 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
459 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
460 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
461 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
462 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
463 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
464 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
465 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
466 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
467 Closes: #88464, #77743
468 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
469 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
470 us to deal with that gracefully.
471 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
473 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
474 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
475 a while, Closes: #51225
477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
479 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
485 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
487 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
488 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
492 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
496 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
501 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
503 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
504 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
505 don't make packlist files.
506 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
507 debhelper coding standards.
508 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
509 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
511 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
513 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
515 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
516 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
518 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
520 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
522 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
523 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
524 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
525 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
526 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
527 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
528 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
529 but is mildly deprecated.
530 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
531 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
532 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
533 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
534 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
535 switching to statoverrides..
536 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
537 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
538 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
539 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
540 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
541 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
543 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
544 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
545 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
546 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
547 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
548 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
549 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
550 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
551 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
553 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
554 variable names, pod man pages).
555 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
556 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
557 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
558 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
559 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
560 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
561 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
565 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
567 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
569 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
571 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
573 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
576 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
578 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
580 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
581 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
585 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
587 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
588 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
589 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
593 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
595 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
596 they were previously ignored.
598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
600 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
602 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
603 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
607 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
609 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
610 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
611 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
615 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
617 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
619 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
621 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
623 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
624 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
628 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
630 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
631 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
632 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
633 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
634 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
635 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
636 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
637 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
638 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
639 it is an obsolete program.
641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
643 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
645 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
649 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
651 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
653 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
655 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
657 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
659 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
661 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
663 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
665 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
667 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
669 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
675 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
677 * typo: Closes, #78567
679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
681 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
683 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
685 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
687 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
689 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
693 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
695 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
696 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
697 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
698 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
699 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
700 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
702 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
704 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
706 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
707 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
712 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
714 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
715 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
716 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
717 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
718 backwards-compatability.
720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
722 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
724 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
725 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
726 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
727 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
728 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
729 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
730 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
732 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
733 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
734 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
736 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
738 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
739 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
740 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
741 should now be raised to severity important..
742 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
743 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
747 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
749 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
750 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
753 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
755 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
757 * Typo, Closes: #77441
759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
761 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
763 * Completed the fix from the last version.
765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
767 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
769 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
771 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
773 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
775 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
780 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
782 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
783 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
784 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
785 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
786 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
790 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
792 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
796 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
798 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
799 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
800 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
801 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
802 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
803 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
804 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
809 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
811 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
812 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
816 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
818 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
822 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
825 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
828 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
830 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
832 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
833 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
834 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
835 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
836 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
840 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
842 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
844 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
847 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
849 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
850 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
851 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
854 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
856 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
857 the TODO entry about it.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
861 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
868 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
871 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
872 prevent that. Closes: #73052
874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
876 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
878 * Typo, Closes: #72932
879 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
880 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
881 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
882 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
886 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
888 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
890 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
892 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
894 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
899 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
901 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
902 (this appears to be logal).
904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
906 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
908 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
909 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
910 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
911 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
912 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
916 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
918 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
920 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
922 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
924 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
925 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
926 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
927 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
928 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
930 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
932 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
934 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
936 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
938 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
940 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
941 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
943 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
945 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
947 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
952 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
955 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
956 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
957 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
962 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
964 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
967 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
969 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
971 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
973 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
975 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
977 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
978 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
979 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
980 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
981 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
982 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
983 notice until v2 is complete.
984 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
985 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
986 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
987 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
988 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
989 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
991 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
992 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
993 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
994 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
998 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
1004 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
1009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
1011 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
1014 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
1018 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
1023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
1025 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
1027 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
1028 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
1029 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
1030 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
1031 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
1034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
1036 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
1038 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
1039 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
1040 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
1041 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
1044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
1046 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
1048 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
1049 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
1050 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
1052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
1054 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
1056 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
1057 just skip files that end in -\d+.
1059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
1061 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
1063 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
1064 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
1066 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
1068 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
1070 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
1073 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
1075 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
1077 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
1078 depend on the build and install targets.
1080 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
1082 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1084 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1085 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1087 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1089 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1091 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1094 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1096 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1100 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1102 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1104 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1108 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1110 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1111 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1112 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1113 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1114 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1115 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1116 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1118 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1119 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1120 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1121 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1122 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1123 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1124 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1128 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1132 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1134 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1136 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1138 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1140 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1142 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1143 right place. Closes: #55065
1145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1147 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1149 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1152 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1154 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1156 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1157 * Copyright date updates.
1159 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1161 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1163 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1164 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1169 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1175 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1182 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1186 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1188 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1190 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1192 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1194 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1196 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1200 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1202 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1203 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1204 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1205 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1206 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1207 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1208 bits until all files have been registered.
1210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1212 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1214 * dh_installmanpages:
1215 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1216 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1217 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1218 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1219 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1220 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1221 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1222 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1223 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1224 otherwise change the result at all.
1226 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1227 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1228 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1229 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1230 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1233 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1235 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1237 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1239 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1241 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1243 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1244 act on files that don't exist.
1245 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1246 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1247 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1249 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1250 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1251 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1252 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1256 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1258 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1260 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1262 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1266 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1268 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1270 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1271 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1273 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1275 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1277 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1278 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1280 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1281 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1282 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1284 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1286 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1288 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1289 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1290 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1291 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1292 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1293 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1294 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1295 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1297 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1299 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1303 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1310 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1312 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1316 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1322 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1324 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1325 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1329 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1335 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1341 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1343 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1344 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1345 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1346 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1347 I made some changes, though:
1348 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1349 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1350 that is a clear violation of policy.
1351 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1352 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1353 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1354 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1355 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1356 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1357 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1358 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1359 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1361 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1365 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1367 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1369 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1371 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1374 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1378 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1381 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1382 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1387 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1393 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1398 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1400 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1403 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1404 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1405 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1406 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1407 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1408 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1409 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1413 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1419 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1423 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1424 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1428 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1430 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1434 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1436 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1437 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1441 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1443 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1444 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1445 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1449 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1451 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1456 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1460 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1464 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1466 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1467 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1468 for the dependancies to be generated.
1470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1472 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1475 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1479 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1481 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1482 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1483 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1484 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1489 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1491 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1492 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1493 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1495 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1497 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1499 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1501 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1503 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1509 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1512 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1516 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1520 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1522 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1524 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1525 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1526 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1527 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1528 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1529 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1530 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1531 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1532 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1533 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1534 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1535 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1536 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1538 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1540 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1542 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1543 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1544 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1546 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1547 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1548 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1549 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1550 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1551 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1553 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1554 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1556 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1558 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1560 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1561 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1565 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1570 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1572 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1575 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1580 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1583 for building debhelper.
1584 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1588 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1590 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1595 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1597 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1598 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1602 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1604 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1605 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1606 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1607 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1608 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1609 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1610 it's always available.
1612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1614 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1616 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1617 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1618 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1619 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1623 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1626 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1627 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1629 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1631 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1633 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1635 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1637 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1639 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1640 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1644 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1646 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1650 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1653 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1654 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1655 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1659 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1661 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1662 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1665 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1667 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1669 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1670 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1671 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1673 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1674 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1676 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1678 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1684 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1686 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1690 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1693 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1697 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1699 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1700 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1701 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1703 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1705 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1707 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1709 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1710 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1711 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1712 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1714 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1716 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1719 things if CDPATH is set.
1721 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1723 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1727 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1729 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1731 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1732 seems to make sense for the transition.
1734 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1736 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1738 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1739 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1744 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1746 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1747 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1748 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1750 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1752 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1754 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1755 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1759 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1762 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1763 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1764 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1765 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1769 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1771 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1775 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1777 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1778 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1779 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1780 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1781 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1782 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1783 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1784 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1785 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1786 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1787 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1792 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1794 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1795 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1796 * README: mention doc/v2
1797 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1798 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1802 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1804 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1805 be using this script RSN.
1807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1809 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1811 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1812 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1813 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1814 more than 1 init script.
1816 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1818 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1820 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1821 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1823 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1825 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1827 * Changed perl version detection.
1828 * Changed call to find.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1832 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1835 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1837 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1842 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Really include dh_installpam.
1846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1848 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1850 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1851 * Wrote man page for same.
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1855 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1858 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1859 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1862 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1864 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1869 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1871 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1873 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1874 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1875 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1876 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1877 x bit was being set!
1879 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1881 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1883 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1884 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1885 well. (Closes: 38900)
1887 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1889 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1891 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1892 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1893 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1895 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1897 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1899 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1901 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1903 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1905 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1910 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1914 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1916 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1918 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1919 help from Julian Gilbey.
1920 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1921 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1922 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1923 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1924 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1925 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1926 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1931 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1937 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1944 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1948 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1950 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1952 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1956 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1958 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1959 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1961 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1963 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1965 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1966 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1970 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1972 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1973 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1977 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1981 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1983 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1985 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1986 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1990 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1994 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1996 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1998 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
2000 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
2002 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
2004 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
2005 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
2006 may be deleted. (#35845)
2008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
2010 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
2012 * Various man page enhancements.
2013 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
2016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
2018 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
2020 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
2021 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
2022 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
2026 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
2029 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
2030 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
2031 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
2033 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
2034 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
2037 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
2039 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
2041 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
2045 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * Another very minor typo fix.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
2051 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * Very minor typo fix.
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
2057 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
2060 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
2061 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
2063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
2065 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
2067 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
2069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
2071 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
2073 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
2074 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
2075 variables properly (#34850).
2077 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
2079 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
2081 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
2083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2085 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2088 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2089 (automatically generated by build process).
2091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2093 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2095 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2099 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2102 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2103 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2105 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2107 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2109 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2111 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2112 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2116 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2118 * README: minor typo fix.
2120 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2122 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2124 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2125 leave it at that. :-)
2127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2129 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2131 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2135 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2141 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2144 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2145 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2146 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2150 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2152 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2153 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2157 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2159 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2160 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2164 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2166 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2167 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2168 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2169 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2170 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2174 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2177 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2178 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2179 Craig Small for spotting this.
2181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2183 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2185 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2186 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2187 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2191 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2193 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2197 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2200 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2204 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2206 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2207 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2208 working on the last version of debhelper.
2210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2212 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2214 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2215 being made. (#23255)
2217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2219 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2223 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2225 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2227 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2228 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2232 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2234 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2235 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2236 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2237 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2238 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2240 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2242 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2244 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2245 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2246 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2247 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2248 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2250 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2251 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2253 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2258 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2260 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2264 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2266 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2268 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2270 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2272 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2273 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2274 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2275 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2276 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2277 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2278 suidregister actually supports it.
2279 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2280 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2284 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2286 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2291 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2293 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2294 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2295 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2296 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2297 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2298 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2299 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2300 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2302 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2304 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2306 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2307 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2309 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2311 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2313 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2314 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2315 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2316 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2317 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2321 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2323 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2324 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2326 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2327 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2328 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2329 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2330 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2331 effect, either. (#30118)
2333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2335 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2337 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2339 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2341 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2343 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2344 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2345 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2349 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2351 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2355 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2357 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2358 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2359 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2360 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2361 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2365 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2367 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2368 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2369 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2371 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2373 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2375 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2379 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2382 packages, painlessly.
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2386 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2390 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2392 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2394 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2396 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2398 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2400 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2404 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2406 * The perl conversion is complete.
2408 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2410 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2411 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2412 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2417 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2419 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2420 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2421 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2422 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2426 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2429 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2431 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2433 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2434 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2438 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2440 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2441 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2442 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2446 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2448 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2450 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2452 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2454 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2455 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2456 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2457 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2458 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2459 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2461 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2463 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2465 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2466 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2467 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2468 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2469 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2471 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2473 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2476 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2478 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2480 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2482 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2483 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2484 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2485 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2486 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2487 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2488 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2489 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2490 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2494 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2500 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2502 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2503 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2504 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2505 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2508 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2510 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2512 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2513 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2515 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2517 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2519 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2520 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2524 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2527 sections of shared libraries.
2528 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2529 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2530 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2531 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2532 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2533 things you don't want them to.
2534 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2535 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2539 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2542 shared libraries. (#26414)
2544 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2546 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2548 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2549 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2550 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2551 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2555 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2559 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2561 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2562 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2563 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2564 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2565 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2567 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2569 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2571 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2572 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2574 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2576 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2578 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2579 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2580 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2585 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2587 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2588 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2590 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2592 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2594 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2595 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2596 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2597 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2598 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2599 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2601 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2602 remove debian/files properly.
2603 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2604 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2605 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2606 * Removed bogus menu file.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2610 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2613 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2617 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2620 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2621 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2622 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2623 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2624 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2625 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2629 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2632 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2633 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2634 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2635 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2639 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2641 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2646 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2649 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2650 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2652 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2653 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2654 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2655 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2656 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2657 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2661 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2663 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2664 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2665 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2666 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2667 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2668 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2669 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2670 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2671 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2672 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2673 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2674 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2675 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2676 passed any switches.
2677 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2679 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2681 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2683 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2684 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2685 at all for a long while.
2686 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2687 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2688 large chunks in the process.
2689 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2690 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2691 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2696 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2698 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2699 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2701 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2706 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2708 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2709 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2710 that don't always have the same files in them.
2711 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2712 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2713 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2715 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2717 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2719 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2721 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2722 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2723 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2724 updating 27 man pages.
2725 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2726 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2727 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2728 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2729 programs act on. (#25247)
2731 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2733 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2737 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2738 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2739 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2740 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2741 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2742 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2745 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2747 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2749 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2754 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2759 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2761 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2763 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2764 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2766 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2768 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2770 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2774 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2777 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2778 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2779 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2780 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2781 package by accident.
2782 * Is version 1.0 next?
2784 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2786 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2788 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2789 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2790 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2792 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2794 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2796 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2797 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2798 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2799 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2800 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2801 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2803 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2808 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2810 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2811 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2812 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2814 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2816 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2818 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2819 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2823 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2825 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2826 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2827 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2832 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2834 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2838 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2840 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2841 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2842 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2847 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2853 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2855 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2856 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2857 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2858 past week. Thanks, guys!
2860 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2861 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2862 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2863 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2864 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2865 would do in the same situation.
2866 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2867 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2869 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2871 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2872 permissions changed.
2873 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2874 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2875 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2876 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2877 files are treated identically.
2878 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2879 * Minor man page fixes.
2880 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2881 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2882 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2886 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2889 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2890 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2891 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2892 use -X multiple times, too.
2893 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2894 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2898 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2900 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2901 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2902 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2906 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2908 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2909 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2913 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2915 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2916 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2917 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2918 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2919 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2920 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2921 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2922 shape if you're starting a new package.
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2926 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2929 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2931 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2933 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2935 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2936 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2937 because of missing symlinks.
2939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2941 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2943 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2947 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2949 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2950 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2951 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2952 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2953 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2954 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2956 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2957 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2961 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2963 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2964 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2965 to be changed after the fact :-)
2966 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2970 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2972 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2973 no version string after the -V.
2975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2977 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2979 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2980 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2985 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2988 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2992 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2995 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2996 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2997 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2998 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2999 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
3000 I always welcome corrections!
3002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
3004 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
3006 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
3008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
3010 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
3012 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
3013 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
3014 * Documented this new switch.
3016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
3018 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
3021 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
3022 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
3023 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
3024 no packages use the old behavior.
3026 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
3028 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
3030 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
3031 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
3032 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
3034 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
3036 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
3038 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
3039 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
3041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
3043 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
3045 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
3047 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
3049 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
3051 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
3052 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
3054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
3056 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
3058 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
3059 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
3060 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
3061 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
3063 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
3065 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
3067 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
3069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
3071 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
3073 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
3074 into the source package by accident.
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
3078 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
3081 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
3082 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
3083 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3084 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3085 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3086 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3091 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3093 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3095 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3096 inspired to implement some of it.
3097 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3099 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3101 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3103 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3104 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3108 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3110 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3111 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3112 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3116 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3118 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3119 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3120 have done.) (#17598)
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3124 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3128 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3130 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3132 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3134 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3136 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3138 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3139 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3143 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3145 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3146 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3147 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3151 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3153 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3154 argument processor in perl.
3155 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3156 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3157 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3158 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3162 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3164 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3165 type directories. (#16933)
3166 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3167 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3168 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3169 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3170 are supported. (#16935)
3171 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3176 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3178 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3179 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3181 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3183 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3185 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3187 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3188 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3189 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3190 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3191 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3192 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3196 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3198 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3199 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3200 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3202 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3203 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3204 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3205 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3206 a given package, or -i or -a.
3207 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3208 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3209 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3210 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3211 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3212 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3213 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3214 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3215 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3217 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3218 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3219 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3221 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3223 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3225 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3226 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3227 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3232 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3234 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3235 does not have a section.
3237 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3239 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3241 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3242 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3243 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3244 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3246 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3248 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3250 * Fixed typo #16215.
3252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3254 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3256 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3257 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3258 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3259 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3260 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3261 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3266 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3268 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3269 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3270 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3271 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3274 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3276 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3278 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3280 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3282 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3284 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3288 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3290 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3291 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3292 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3293 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3294 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3295 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3296 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3298 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3300 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3302 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3306 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3309 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3311 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3313 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3315 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3316 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3317 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3318 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3322 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3324 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3325 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3329 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3331 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3335 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3337 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3338 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3342 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3344 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3345 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3349 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3351 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3355 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3357 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3358 postinst, postrm, etc.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3362 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3368 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3370 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3371 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3372 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3373 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3374 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3375 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3379 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3381 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3382 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3383 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3387 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3389 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3390 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3394 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3397 installing package files into.
3398 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3401 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3403 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3405 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3407 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3409 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3411 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3413 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3417 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3419 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3420 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3422 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3424 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3426 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3427 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3428 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3429 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3430 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3434 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3436 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3437 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3438 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3439 multiple binary packages.
3440 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3441 should rebuild them with this version.
3442 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3446 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3448 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3449 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3453 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3456 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3458 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3460 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3462 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3463 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3464 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3465 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3466 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3467 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3468 debian/README.debian.
3469 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3470 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3471 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3472 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3473 in a few situations.)
3475 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3477 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3479 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3481 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3483 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3485 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3487 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3489 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3491 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3492 * Fixed several man pages.
3494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3496 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3498 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3499 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3500 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3504 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3506 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3507 is ready for general use.
3508 * Added man pages for all commands.
3509 * Multiple binary package support.
3510 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3511 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3512 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3514 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3515 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3516 auto-installed as parameters.
3517 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3519 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3522 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3523 the package build directory it is to act on.
3524 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3525 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3526 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3530 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3532 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3533 ready to replace debstd.
3535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400