1 debhelper (4.2.11) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * dh_installmodules: Look for .ko files too. Closes: #248624
5 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 May 2004 11:25:42 -0300
7 debhelper (4.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
9 * dh_strip: if an .a file is not a binary file, do not try to strip it.
10 This deals with linker scripts used on the Hurd. Closes: #246366
12 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:36:39 -0400
14 debhelper (4.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
16 * dh_installinfo: escape '&' characters in INFO-DIR-SECTION when calling
17 sed. Also support \1 etc for completeness. Closes: #246301
19 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:06:16 -0400
21 debhelper (4.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
23 * Spanish translation of dh_installppp from Ruben Porras. Closes: #240844
24 * dh_fixperms: Make executable files in /usr/games. Closes: #243404
26 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 2004 18:31:18 -0400
28 debhelper (4.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
30 * Add support for cron.hourly. Closes: #240733
32 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 22:14:42 -0500
34 debhelper (4.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
36 * Bump dh_strip's recommended bintuils dep to current. Closes: #237304
38 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Mar 2004 20:04:19 -0500
40 debhelper (4.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
42 * Spanish man page updates by Ruben Possas and Rudy Godoy.
44 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0500
46 debhelper (4.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
48 * dh_installdocs: ignore .EX files as produced by dh-make.
49 * dh_movefiles: if the file cannot be found, do not go ahead and try
50 to move it anyway, as this can produce unpredictable behavor with globs
51 passed in from the shell. See bug #234105
53 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:43:33 -0500
55 debhelper (4.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
57 * dh_movefiles: use xargs -0 to safely remove files with whitespace,
58 etc. Patch from Yann Dirson. Closes: #233226
60 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Feb 2004 18:57:05 -0500
62 debhelper (4.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
64 * dh_shlibdeps: Turn on for udebs. It's often wrong (and ignored by d-i),
65 but occasionally right and necessary.
67 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:36:29 -0500
69 debhelper (4.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
71 * dh_installxfonts(1): fix link to policy. Closes: #231918
72 * dh_scrollkeeper: patch from Christian Marillat Closes: #231703
73 - Remove DTD changes since docbook-xml not supports xml catalogs.
74 - Bump scrollkeeper dep to 0.3.14-5.
75 * dh_installinfo: remove info stuff on update as well as remove.
76 Policy is unclear/wrong. Closes: #231937a
78 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 2004 18:20:40 -0500
80 debhelper (4.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
82 * Added udeb support, as pioneered by di-packages-build. Understands
83 "XC-Package-Type: udeb" in debian/control. See debhelper(1) for
85 * Dh_Lib: add and export is_udeb and udeb_filename
86 * dh_builddeb: name udebs with proper extension
87 * dh_gencontrol: pass -n and filename to dpkg-gencontrol
88 * dh_installdocs, dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installchangelogs,
89 dh_installexamples, dh_installman, dh_installmanpages: skip udebs
90 * dh_shlibdeps: skip udebs. This may be temporary.
91 * dh_installdeb: do not process conffiles, shlibs, preinsts, postrms,
92 or prerms for udebs. Do not substiture #DEBHELPER# tokens in
93 postinst scripts for udebs.
94 * dh_installdebconf: skip config script for udebs, still do templates
96 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:51:57 -0500
98 debhelper (4.1.90) unstable; urgency=low
100 * dh_strip: Add note to man page that the detached debugging symbols options
101 mean the package must build-depend on a new enough version of binutils.
103 * dh_installdebconf: The debconf dependency has changed to include
104 "| debconf-2.0". Closes: #230622
106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:10:10 -0500
108 debhelper (4.1.89) unstable; urgency=low
110 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst /dev/null stdout of which test.
112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:00:21 -0500
114 debhelper (4.1.88) unstable; urgency=low
116 * dh_strip: Fix a unquoted string in regexp in the dbg symbols code.
119 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:13:32 -0500
121 debhelper (4.1.87) unstable; urgency=low
123 * dh_gconf: Add proper parens around the package version in the misc:Depends
126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:53:43 -0500
128 debhelper (4.1.86) unstable; urgency=low
130 * dh_gconf: Fix man page typos, thanks Ruben Porras. Closes: #228076
131 * dh_gconf: Spanish man page from Ruben Porras. Closes: #228075
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:43:58 -0500
135 debhelper (4.1.85) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_install: add missing parens to the $installed regexp. Closes: #227963
138 * dh_install: improve wording of --list-missing messages
140 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:45:42 -0500
142 debhelper (4.1.84) unstable; urgency=low
144 * Added dh_gconf command from Ross Burton. Closes: #180882
145 * dh_scrollkeeper: Make postinst fragment test for scrollkeeper-update.
148 * Include full text of the GPL in the source package, because goodness
149 knows, I need another copy of that in subversion..
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 14:14:15 -0500
153 debhelper (4.1.83) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Clarify dh_install's autodest behavior with wildcards. Closes: #224707
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 12:18:37 -0500
159 debhelper (4.1.82) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Add remove guard to prerm-info. Closes: #223617
162 * Remove #INITPARMS# from call to update-rc.d in postrm-init. Closes: #224090
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:33:19 -0500
166 debhelper (4.1.81) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Removed the no upstream changelog for debian packages test.
169 Even though it has personally saved me many times, debhelper is not
170 intended to check packages for mistakes, and apparently it makes sense
171 for some "native" packages to have a non-Debian changelog.
173 * If a native package has an upstream changelog, call the debian/changelog
175 * postinst-menu-method: always chmod menu-method executable even if
176 update-menus is not. Closes: #220576
177 * dh_installmenu: do not ship menu-methods executable.
179 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 2003 13:16:14 -0500
181 debhelper (4.1.80) unstable; urgency=low
183 * Add the Spanish manpages I missed last time. Closes: #218718
184 * dh_installman: support compressed man pages when finding .so links.
187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 2003 16:15:23 -0500
189 debhelper (4.1.79) unstable; urgency=low
191 * dh_strip: typo. Closes: #218745
192 * Updated Spanish man page translations for:
193 debhelper dh_installcron dh_installinit dh_installlogrotate dh_installman
194 dh_installmodules dh_installpam dh_install dh_movefiles dh_strip
197 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:07 -0500
199 debhelper (4.1.78) unstable; urgency=low
201 * dh_installcatalogs: Fixed to create dir in tmpdir. Closes: #218237
203 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:26:02 -0500
205 debhelper (4.1.77) unstable; urgency=low
207 * Remove the "L" from reference to menufile(5). Closes: #216042
209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Oct 2003 13:33:12 -0400
211 debhelper (4.1.76) unstable; urgency=low
213 * Patch from Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> to make dh_strip
214 support saving the debugging symbols with a --keep-debug flag and
215 dh_shlibdeps skip /usr/lib/debug. Thanks! Closes: #215670
216 * Add --dbg-package flag to dh_strip, to list packages that have associated
217 -dbg packages. dh_strip will then move the debug symbols over to the
218 associated -dbg packages.
220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 14:18:06 -0400
222 debhelper (4.1.75) unstable; urgency=low
224 * dh_install: add --fail-missing option. Closes: #120026
225 * Fix mispelling in prerm-sgmlcatalog. Closes: #215189
227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:12:59 -0400
229 debhelper (4.1.74) unstable; urgency=low
231 * Only list dh_installman once in example rules.indep. Closes: #211567
232 * Really fix the prerm-sgmlcatalog, not the postrm. Closes: #209131
234 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Sep 2003 18:56:54 -0400
236 debhelper (4.1.73) unstable; urgency=low
238 * dh_installcatalogs: in prerm on upgrade, call update-catalog on the
239 advice of Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #209131
241 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Sep 2003 21:43:31 -0400
243 debhelper (4.1.72) unstable; urgency=low
245 * Switch from build-depends-indep to just build-depends.
246 * dh_installman: match .so links with whitespace after the filename
249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Sep 2003 13:59:12 -0400
251 debhelper (4.1.71) unstable; urgency=low
253 * Typo. Closes: #207999
254 * Typo, typo. Closes: #208171 :-)
256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Sep 2003 08:24:13 -0400
258 debhelper (4.1.70) unstable; urgency=low
260 * Complete Spanish translation of all man pages thanks to Rubén Porras
261 Campo, Rudy Godoy, and the rest of the Spanish translation team.
264 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Aug 2003 19:45:45 -0400
266 debhelper (4.1.69) unstable; urgency=low
268 * dh_installppp: correct filenames on man page. Closes: #206893
269 * dh_installinit: man page typo fix and enhancement. Closes: #206891
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 23 Aug 2003 14:54:59 -0400
273 debhelper (4.1.68) unstable; urgency=low
275 * Remove duplicate packages from DOPACKAGES after argument processing.
277 * dh_compress: deal with links pointing to links pointing to compressed
278 files, no matter what order find returns them. Closes: #204169
279 * dh_installmodules, dh_installpam, dh_installcron, dh_installinit,
280 dh_installogrotate: add --name= option, that can be used to specify
281 the name to use for the file(s) installed by these commands. For example,
282 dh_installcron --name=foo will install debian/package.foo.cron.daily to
283 etc/cron.daily/foo. Closes: #138202, #101003, #68545, #148844
284 (Thanks to Thomas Hood for connecting these bug reports.)
285 * dh_installinit: deprecated --init-script option in favor of the above.
286 * Add dh_installppp. Closes: #43403
288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 15:27:36 -0400
290 debhelper (4.1.67) unstable; urgency=low
292 * dh_python: Another patch, for pythonX.Y-foo packages.
293 * dh_link: Improve error message if link destination is a directory.
296 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:48:19 -0400
298 debhelper (4.1.66) unstable; urgency=low
300 * dh_link: rm -f every time, ln -f is not good enough if the link target
301 is an existing directory (aka, ln sucks). Closes: #206245
302 * dh_clean: honor -X for debian/tmp removal. Closes: #199952 more or less.
304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:52:53 -0400
306 debhelper (4.1.65) unstable; urgency=low
308 * Converted several chown 0.0 to chown 0:0 for POSIX 200112.
309 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to support packages only
310 shipping binary (.so) modules, and removal of any already byte-compiled
313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:11:35 -0400
315 debhelper (4.1.64) unstable; urgency=low
317 * dh_python: Add a -V flag to choose the python version modules in a package
318 use. Patch from Josselin, of course.
320 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:48:22 -0400
322 debhelper (4.1.63) unstable; urgency=low
324 * dh_python: patch from Josselin to fix generated depends. Closes: #204717
325 * dh_pythn: also stylistic and tab damage fixes
327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:33:16 -0400
329 debhelper (4.1.62) unstable; urgency=low
331 * Fix a bug in quoted section parsing that put the quotes in the parsed
332 out section number. Closes: #204731
334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Aug 2003 22:25:23 -0400
336 debhelper (4.1.61) unstable; urgency=low
338 * dh_makeshlibs: only scan files matching *.so.* and *.so, not *.so*.
341 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 17:08:00 -0400
343 debhelper (4.1.60) unstable; urgency=low
345 * dh_python: support python ver 2.3. Closes: #204556
347 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Aug 2003 11:59:34 -0400
349 debhelper (4.1.59) unstable; urgency=low
351 * dh_installman: support .TH lines with quotes. Closes: #204527
353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:39:36 -0400
355 debhelper (4.1.58) unstable; urgency=low
357 * Typo, Closes: #203907
358 * dh_python: clan compiled files on downgrade, upgrade, not only
359 removal. Closes: #204286
361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Aug 2003 15:47:06 -0400
363 debhelper (4.1.57) unstable; urgency=low
365 * dh_install: Add LIMITATIONS section and other changes to clarify
366 renaming. Closes: #203548
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:51:01 -0400
370 debhelper (4.1.56) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Several man pae typo fixes by Ruben Porras. Closes: #202819
373 * Now in a subversion repository, some minor changes for that.
374 * dh_link test should expect results in debian/debhelper, not debian/tmp.
376 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:36:45 -0400
378 debhelper (4.1.55) unstable; urgency=low
380 * dh_strip: do not strip files multiple times.
382 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:04:49 -0400
384 debhelper (4.1.54) unstable; urgency=low
386 * dh_scrollkeeper: fix postrm to not run if scrollkeeper is not present
388 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:57:30 +0200
390 debhelper (4.1.53) unstable; urgency=low
392 * dh_scrollkeeper: fixed some overenthusiastic quoting. Closes: #201810
394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Jul 2003 09:45:23 +0200
396 debhelper (4.1.52) unstable; urgency=low
398 * dh_clean: Clean the *.debhelper temp files on a per-package basis, in
399 case dh_clean is run on one package at a time.
400 * Removed the debian/substvars removal code entirely. It was only there to
401 deal with half-built trees built with debhelper << 3.0.30
403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:28:27 -0400
405 debhelper (4.1.51) unstable; urgency=low
407 * dh_installchangelogs: Install debian/NEWS as NEWS.Debian, even for native
408 packages. This doesn't follow the lead of the changelog for native
409 packages for the reasons discussed in bug #192089
411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Jul 2003 00:34:24 -0400
413 debhelper (4.1.50) unstable; urgency=low
415 * dh_clean: make -X work for debian/substvars file.
417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 22:05:32 -0400
419 debhelper (4.1.49) unstable; urgency=low
421 * dh_installman: Don't require trailing whitespace after the seciton number
424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jul 2003 14:08:41 -0400
426 debhelper (4.1.48) unstable; urgency=low
428 * dh_python typo fix Closes: #197679
429 * dh_link: don't complain if tmp dir does not exist yet when doing pre-link
432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:51:13 -0400
434 debhelper (4.1.47) unstable; urgency=low
436 * dh_install: recalculate automatic $dest eash time through the glob loop.
437 It might change if there are multiple wildcards Closes: #196344
439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:35:27 -0400
441 debhelper (4.1.46) unstable; urgency=low
443 * Added dh_scrollkeeper, by Ross Burton.
444 * Added dh_userlocal, by Andrew Stribblehill. (With root.root special case
446 * Added dh_installlogcheck, by Jon Middleton. Closes: #184021
447 * Add aph's name to copyright file too.
449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:01:28 -0400
451 debhelper (4.1.45) unstable; urgency=low
453 * Typo fixes from Adam Garside.
454 * dh_python: don't bother terminating the regexp, 2.2.3c1 for example.
457 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 May 2003 11:55:32 -0400
459 debhelper (4.1.44) unstable; urgency=low
461 * dh_python: allow for a + at the end of the python version, as in the
462 python in stable, version 2.1.3+.
464 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 May 2003 17:50:16 -0400
466 debhelper (4.1.43) unstable; urgency=low
468 * dh_python: Honour -n flag. Closes: #192804
470 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 13:00:12 -0400
472 debhelper (4.1.42) unstable; urgency=medium
474 * Fix stupid typo in dh_movefiles. Closes: #188833
476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:44:22 -0400
478 debhelper (4.1.41) unstable; urgency=low
480 * dh_movefiles: Do not pass --remove-files to tar, since that makes
481 it break hard links (see #188663).
483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:11:28 -0400
485 debhelper (4.1.40) unstable; urgency=low
487 * Fix build with 077 umask. Closes: #187757
488 * Allow colons between multiple items in DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE.
490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Apr 2003 14:30:48 -0400
492 debhelper (4.1.39) unstable; urgency=low
494 * Add calls to dh_installcatalogs to example rules files. Closes: #186819
496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Mar 2003 11:52:03 -0500
498 debhelper (4.1.38) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Fixed dh_installcatalog's references to itself on man page.
502 * dh_installdebconf: Set umask to sane before running po2debconf or
503 debconf-mergetemplates
505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:17:09 -0800
507 debhelper (4.1.37) unstable; urgency=low
509 * dh_installmenu: Refer to menufile(5) instead of 5L so as not to confuse
510 pod2man. Closes: #184013
512 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Mar 2003 18:37:14 -0500
514 debhelper (4.1.36) unstable; urgency=low
516 * Rename debhelper.1 to debhelper.7.
517 * Typo, Closes: #183267
519 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:27:45 -0500
521 debhelper (4.1.34) unstable; urgency=low
523 * Removed vegistal substvars stuff from dh_inistallinit.
524 * Update debhelper(1).
526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:34:44 -0500
528 debhelper (4.1.33) unstable; urgency=low
530 * wiggy didn't take my hint about making update-modules send warnings to
531 stderr, so its overly verbose stdout is now directed to /dev/null to
532 prevent conflicts with debconf. Closes: #150804
533 * dh_fixperms: only skip examples directories which in a parent of
534 usr/share/doc, not in a deeper tree. Closes: #152602
535 * dh_compress: stop even looking at usr/doc
537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:45:32 -0500
539 debhelper (4.1.32) unstable; urgency=low
541 * dh_md5sums: note that it's used by debsums. Closes: #181521
542 * Make addsubstvars() escape the value of the variable before passing it to
543 the shell. Closes: #178524
544 * Fixed escape_shell()'s escaping of a few things.
546 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:01:45 -0500
548 debhelper (4.1.31) unstable; urgency=low
550 * Added dh_installcatalogs, for sgml (and later xml) catalogs. By
551 Adam DiCarlo. Closes: #90025
553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:26:24 -0500
555 debhelper (4.1.30) unstable; urgency=low
557 * Turned dh_undocumented into a no-op, as policy does not want
558 undocumented.7 links anymore.
560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:34:13 -0500
562 debhelper (4.1.29) unstable; urgency=low
564 * List binary-common in .PHONY in rules.multi2. Closes: #173278
565 * Cleaned up error message if python is not installed. Closes: #173524
566 * dh_python: Bug fix from Josselin Mouette for case of building an arch
567 indep python package depending on a arch dependent package. However, I
568 used GetPackages() rather than add yet another control file parser.
571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Dec 2002 21:20:41 -0500
573 debhelper (4.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Fix dh_install to install empty directories even if it is excluding some
576 files from installation.
578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Dec 2002 14:39:30 -0500
580 debhelper (4.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
582 * Fixed dh_python ordering in example rules files. Closes: #172283
583 * Make python postinst fragment only run python if it is installed, useful
584 for packages that include python modules but do not depend on python.
586 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:53:08 -0500
588 debhelper (4.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
590 * dh_builddeb: Reluctantly call dpkg-deb directly. dpkg cannot pass extra
591 params to dpkg-deb. Closes: #170330
593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:14:36 -0500
595 debhelper (4.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
597 * Added a dh_python command, by Josselin Mouette
598 <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org>.
600 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:55:35 -0500
602 debhelper (4.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
604 * Various minor changes based on suggestions by luca.
606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Nov 2002 00:13:52 -0500
608 debhelper (4.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
610 * Still run potodebconf after warning about templates.ll files.
612 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:33:31 -0500
614 debhelper (4.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
616 * dh_install: Support autodest with non-debian/tmp sourcedirs.
618 * dh_install: Support implicit "." sourcedir and --list-missing.
619 (Also supports ./foo file specs and --list-missing.)
621 * dh_md5sums: Don't glob. Closes: #169135
623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:12:24 -0500
625 debhelper (4.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
627 * Make dh_install --list-missing honor -X excludes. Closes: #168739
628 * As a special case, if --sourcedir is not set (so is "."), make
629 --list-missing look only at what is in debian/tmp. This is gross, but
630 people have come to depend on that behavior, and that combination has no
631 other sane meaning. Closes: #168751
633 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Nov 2002 10:56:21 -0500
635 debhelper (4.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
637 * typo in dh_shlibdeps(1), Closes: #167421
638 * dh_movefiles: make --list-missing respect --sourcedir. Closes: #168441
640 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Nov 2002 17:56:32 -0500
642 debhelper (4.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
644 * Added note to dh_installdebconf(1) about postinst sourcing debconf
645 confmodule. (Cf #106070)
646 * Added an example to dh_install(1). Closes: #166402
648 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:26:02 -0500
650 debhelper (4.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
652 * Use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture (again?)
654 * typo fix Closes: #164958 The rest seems clear enough from context, so
657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:47:43 -0400
659 debhelper (4.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
661 * dh_installinit: added --no-start for rcS type scripts. Closes: #136502
663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:58:22 -0400
665 debhelper (4.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
667 * Depend on po-debconf, and I hope I can drop the debconf-utils dep soon.
669 * Removed debconf-utils build-dep. Have no idea why that was there.
670 * dh_installman: Don't use extended section as section name for translated
671 man pages, use only the numeric section as is done for regular man pages.
674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:49:37 -0400
676 debhelper (4.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
678 * dh_compress: Exclude .css files, to prevent broken links from html files,
679 and since they are generally small, and since this matches existing
680 practice. Closes: #163303
682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:04:44 -0400
684 debhelper (4.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
686 * dh_fixperms: Make sure .pm files are 0644. Closes: #163418
688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Oct 2002 14:03:52 -0400
690 debhelper (4.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
692 * dh_installdebconf: Support po-debconf debian/po directories.
695 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:41:51 -0400
697 debhelper (4.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
699 * The "reverse hangover" release.
700 * dh_strip: better documentation, removed extraneous "item" from SYNOPSIS.
702 * dh_strip: detect and don't strip debug/*.so files.
703 * Note that 4.1.11 changelog entry was incorrect, dh_perl worked fine
704 without that change, but the new behavior is less likely to break things
705 if dpkg-gencontrol changes.
706 * Various improvements to debhelper(1).
708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:37:19 -0400
710 debhelper (4.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
712 * Make addsubstvars remove old instances of line before adding new. This
713 will make dh_perl get deps right for packages that have perl modules and
716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:27:08 -0400
718 debhelper (4.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
720 * Depend on coreutils | fileutils. Closes: #161452
722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Sep 2002 11:21:19 -0400
724 debhelper (4.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
726 * Fixed over-escaping of period when generating EXCLUDE_FIND.
729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:41:05 -0400
731 debhelper (4.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
733 * Use invoke-rc.d always now that it is in policy. Fall back to old behavior
734 if invoke-rc.d is not present, so versioned deps on sysvinit are not
737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:07:41 -0400
739 debhelper (4.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
741 * dh_builddeb(1): It's --filename, not --name. Closes: #160151
743 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:05:07 -0400
745 debhelper (4.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
747 * Clarified dh_perl man page. Closes: #159332
749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Sep 2002 12:27:08 -0400
751 debhelper (4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
753 * Fixed excessive escaping around terms in DH_EXCLUDE_FIND. Closes: #159155
755 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Sep 2002 19:20:32 -0400
757 debhelper (4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
759 * Patch from Andrew Suffield to make dh_perl understand #!/usr/bin/env perl
762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Aug 2002 23:05:45 -0400
764 debhelper (4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
766 * dh_installinit: Always start daemon on upgraded even if
767 --no-restart-on-upgrade is given; since the daemon is not stopped
768 with that parameter starting it again is a no-op, unless the daemon was
769 not running for some reason. This makes transtions to using the flag
770 easier. Closes: #90976 and sorry it took me so long to verify you were
773 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Aug 2002 18:52:12 -0400
775 debhelper (4.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
777 * Typo, Closes: #155323
779 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Aug 2002 12:17:11 -0400
781 debhelper (4.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
783 * Added a -L flag to dh_shlibdeps that is a nice alternative to providing a
786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:15:09 -0400
788 debhelper (4.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
790 * Remove /usr/doc manglement code from postinst and prerm.
791 Do not use this verion of debhelper for woody backports!
792 * Removed dh_installxaw.
794 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:26:10 -0400
796 debhelper (4.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
798 * Make dh_installchangelogs install debian/NEWS files as well, as
799 NEWS.Debian. Make dh_compress always compress them. The idea is to make
800 these files be in a machine parsable form, like the debian changelog, but
801 only put newsworthy info into them. Automated tools can then display new
802 news on upgrade. It is hoped that if this catches on it will reduce the
803 abuse of debconf notes. See discussion on debian-devel for details.
805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:09:24 -0400
807 debhelper (4.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
809 * Removed a seemingly useless -dDepends in dh_shlibdeps's call to
810 dpkg-shalibdeps; this allows for stuff like dh_shlibdeps -- -dRecommends
812 * Added a --list-missing parameter to dh_install, which calc may find
815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 7 Jul 2002 22:44:01 -0400
817 debhelper (4.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
819 * In dh_install, don't limit to -type f when doing the find due to -X.
820 This makes it properly install syml8inks, cf my rpm bug.
822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Jul 2002 22:58:03 -0400
824 debhelper (4.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
826 * Patch from doogie to make dh_movefiles support -X. Closes: #150978
827 * Pound home in dh_installman's man page that yet, it really does do the
828 right thing. Closes: #150644
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:28:53 -0400
832 debhelper (4.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
835 * Fixed the tests clint didn't show me.
837 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:57:06 -0400
839 debhelper (4.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
841 * In script fragments, use more posix tests, no -a or -o, no parens.
844 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:39:55 -0400
846 debhelper (4.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
848 * Added --mainpackage= option, of use in some kernel modules packages.
849 * dh_gencontrol only needs to pass -p to dpkg-gencontrol if there is more
850 than one package in debian/control. This makes it a bit more flexible in
853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:44:12 -0400
855 debhelper (4.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
857 * Fixed debconf-utils dependency.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:20:21 -0400
861 debhelper (4.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
863 * dh_compress: always compress .pcf files in
864 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/{100dpi,75dpi,misc}, as is required by policy.
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 1 Jun 2002 18:08:50 -0400
868 debhelper (4.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
870 * Consistently use the which command instead of command -v or hardcoded
871 paths in autoscripts. Neither is in posix, but which is in debianutils, so
872 will always be available. command -v is not available in zsh.
875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 May 2002 00:54:33 -0400
877 debhelper (4.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
879 * dh_install: glob relative to --sourcedir. Closes: #147908
880 * Documented what globbing is allowed.
882 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 May 2002 12:28:30 -0400
884 debhelper (4.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
886 * Don't leak regex characters from -X when generating DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
888 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 21:03:38 -0400
890 debhelper (4.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
892 * dh_strip: If a file is an ELF shared binary, does not have a .so.* in its
893 name, stirp it as a ELF binary. It seems that GNUstep has files of this
894 sort. See bug #35733 (not sufficient to close all of it).
896 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 20:40:09 -0400
898 debhelper (4.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
900 * Make dh_clean remove autom4te.cache.
902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 22 May 2002 14:08:33 -0400
904 debhelper (4.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
906 * Removing perl warning message.
908 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 May 2002 01:04:16 -0400
910 debhelper (4.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
912 * Set DH_ALWAYS_EXCLUDE=CVS and debhelper will exclude CVS directories
913 from processing by any command that takes a -X option, and dh_builddeb
914 will also go in and rm -rf any that still sneak into the build tree.
915 * dh_install: A patch from Eric Dorland <eric@debian.org> adds support for
916 --sourcedir, which allows debian/package.files files to be moved over to
917 debian/package.install, and just work. Closes: #146847
918 * dh_movefiles: don't do file tests in no-act mode. Closes: #144573
919 * dh_installdebconf: pass --drop-old-templates to debconf-mergetemplate.
920 Means debhelper has to depend on debconf-utils 1.1.1.
922 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 May 2002 21:38:03 -0400
924 debhelper (4.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
926 * Corrects misbuild with CVS dirs in deb. Closes: #146576
928 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 May 2002 15:38:26 -0400
930 debhelper (4.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
932 * dh_install: delay globbing until after destintations have been found.
935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 21:25:32 -0400
937 debhelper (4.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
939 * dh_installdebconf: allow parameters after -- to go to
940 debconf-mergetemplate.
941 * dh_installman: don't whine about zero-length man pages in .so conversion.
942 * Forgot to export filedoublearray, Closes: #142784
944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 12 Apr 2002 23:22:15 -0400
946 debhelper (4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
948 * dh_movefiles has long been a sore point in debhelper. Inherited
949 from debstd, its interface and implementation suck, and I have maintained
950 it while never really deigning to use it. Now there is a remplacment:
951 dh_install, which ...
952 - copies files, doesn't move them. Closes: #75360, #82649
953 - doesn't have that whole annoying debian/package.files vs. debian/files
954 mess, as it uses debian/install.
955 - supports copying empty subdirs. Closes: #133037
956 - doesn't use tar, thus no error reproting problems. Closes: #112538
957 - files are listed relative to the pwd, debian/tmp need not be used at
958 all, so no globbing issues. Closes: #100404
959 - supports -X. Closes: #116902
960 - the whole concept of moving files out of a directory is gone, so this
961 bug doesn't really apply. Closes: #120026
962 - This is exactly what Bill Allombert asked for in #117383, even though I
963 designed it seemingly independantly. Thank you Bill! Closes: #117383
964 * Made debhelper's debian/rules a lot simpler by means of the above.
965 * Updated example rules file to use dh_install. Also some reordering and
967 * dh_movefiles is lightly deprecated, and when you run into its bugs and
968 bad design, you are incouraged to just use dh_install instead.
969 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in bin/ dirs +x. Closes: #119039
970 * dh_fixperms: in v4 only, make all files in etc/init.d executable (of
971 course there's -X ..)
972 * dh_link: in v4 only, finds existing, non-policy-conformant symlinks
973 and corrects them. This has the side effect of making dh_link idempotent.
974 * Added a -h/--help option. This seems very obvious, but it never occured to
976 * use v4 for building debhelper itself
977 * v4 mode is done, you may now use it without fear of it changing.
978 (This idea of this upload is to get v4 into woody so people won't run into
979 many issues backporting from sarge to woody later on. Packages targeted
980 for woody should continue to use whatever compatability level they are
983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Apr 2002 17:28:57 -0400
985 debhelper (3.4.14) unstable; urgency=low
987 * Fixed an uninitialized value warning, Closes: #141729
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:45:02 -0400
991 debhelper (3.4.13) unstable; urgency=low
993 * Typo, Closes: #139176
994 * Fixed dh_md5sums conffile excluding/including.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Mar 2002 11:25:36 -0500
998 debhelper (3.4.12) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Fix to #99169 was accidentually reverted in 3.0.42; reinstated.
1002 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:31:46 -0500
1004 debhelper (3.4.11) unstable; urgency=low
1006 * Fixed dh_installdocs and dh_installexamples to support multiple -X's.
1008 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Feb 2002 13:02:35 -0500
1010 debhelper (3.4.10) unstable; urgency=low
1012 * Fixed dh_movefiles. Closes: #135479, #135459
1014 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Feb 2002 12:25:32 -0500
1016 debhelper (3.4.9) unstable; urgency=low
1018 * dh_movefiles: Allow for deeper --sourcedir. Closes: #131363
1020 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Feb 2002 16:37:43 -0500
1022 debhelper (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low
1024 * Thanks to Benjamin Drieu <benj@debian.org>, dh_installdocs -X now works.
1025 I had to modify his patch to use cp --parents, since -P spews warnings
1026 now. Also, I made it continue to use cp -a if nothing is excluded,
1027 which is both faster, and means this patch is less likely to break
1028 anything if it turns out to be buggy. Also, stylistic changes.
1030 * Implemented -X for dh_installexamples as well.
1031 * dh_clean -X substvars will also work now. Closes: #66890
1033 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Feb 2002 12:26:37 -0500
1035 debhelper (3.4.7) unstable; urgency=low
1037 * dh_perl: don't gripe if there is no substvar file. Closes: #133140
1039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Feb 2002 17:37:32 -0500
1041 debhelper (3.4.6) unstable; urgency=low
1043 * Typo, Closes: #132454
1044 * Ignore leading/trailing whitespace in DH_OPTIONS, Closes: #132645
1046 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 5 Feb 2002 17:33:57 -0500
1048 debhelper (3.4.5) unstable; urgency=low
1050 * dh_installxfonts: separate multiple commands with \n so sed doesn't get
1051 upset. Closes: #131322
1053 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 29 Jan 2002 18:58:58 -0500
1055 debhelper (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
1057 * Introduced the debian/compat file. This is the new, preferred way to say
1058 what debhelper compatability level your package uses. It has the big
1059 advantage of being available to debhelper when you run it at the command
1060 line, as well as in debian/rules.
1061 * A new v4 feature: dh_installinit, in v4 mode, will use invoke-rc.d.
1062 This is in v4 for testing, but I may well roll it back into v3 (and
1063 earlier) once woody is released and I don't have to worry about breaking
1064 things (and, presumably, once invoke-rc.d enters policy).
1065 * Some debhelper commands will now build up a new substvars variable,
1066 ${misc:Depends}, based on things they know your package needs to depend
1067 on. For example, dh_installinit in v4 mode adds sysvinit (>= 2.80-1) to
1068 that dep list, and dh_installxfonts adds a dep on xutils. This variable
1069 should make it easier to keep track of what your package needs to depends
1070 on, supplimenting the ${shlibs:Depends} and ${perl:Depends} substvars.
1071 Hmm, this appears to be based loosely on an idea by Masato Taruishi
1072 <taru@debian.org>, filtered through a long period of mulling it over.
1074 * Use the addsubstvar function I wrote for the above in dh_perl too.
1076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:30:51 -0500
1078 debhelper (3.4.3) unstable; urgency=low
1080 * Improved dh_installxfonts some more:
1081 - Better indenting of generated code.
1082 - Better ordering of generated code (minor fix).
1084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 26 Jan 2002 23:09:59 -0500
1086 debhelper (3.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * dh_installman: more documentation about the .TH line. Closes: #129205
1090 - Packages that use this should depend on xutils. See man page.
1091 - However, if you really want to, you can skip the dep, and the
1092 postinst will avoid running program that arn't available. Closes: #131053
1093 - Use update-fonts-dir instead of handling encodings ourselves. Yay!
1094 - Pass only the last component of the directory name to
1095 update-fonts-*, since that's what they perfer now.
1096 - Other changes, chould fully comply with Debian X font policy now.
1098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 12:17:43 -0500
1100 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
1103 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
1105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
1107 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1109 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
1110 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
1111 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
1112 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
1113 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
1114 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
1115 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
1116 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
1117 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
1118 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
1119 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
1120 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
1121 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
1122 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
1123 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
1124 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
1127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
1129 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1131 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
1133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
1135 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1137 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
1138 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
1139 * fixed dh_testdir man page
1141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
1143 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1145 * Typo, Closes: #122679
1146 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
1147 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
1151 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
1157 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
1160 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
1161 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
1162 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
1163 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
1164 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
1167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
1169 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
1173 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
1175 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1177 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
1178 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
1180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
1182 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1184 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
1185 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
1188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
1190 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1192 * Typo, Closes: #114135
1194 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
1196 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
1199 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
1201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
1203 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1205 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
1207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
1209 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1211 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
1213 Also some indentation fixes.
1215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
1217 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1219 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
1220 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
1221 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
1222 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
1223 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
1224 Closes: #106514, #85520
1226 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
1228 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1230 * Typo, Closes: #104405
1232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
1234 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
1236 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
1238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
1240 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
1242 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
1244 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
1246 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
1248 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
1250 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
1252 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
1254 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
1256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
1258 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
1260 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
1261 change it in debhelper v4..
1263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
1265 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
1267 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
1269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
1271 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
1273 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
1274 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
1276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
1278 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
1280 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
1281 is not essential. Closes: #100430
1283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
1285 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
1287 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
1289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
1291 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1293 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
1294 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
1295 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
1296 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
1297 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
1298 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
1299 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
1300 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
1301 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
1302 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
1303 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
1304 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
1305 prefixed with ".debhelper")
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
1309 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
1312 look just like shared libs, but are not.
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
1316 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
1321 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
1323 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1325 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
1326 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
1327 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
1328 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
1329 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
1330 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
1331 program those options go to. So, for example,
1332 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
1333 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
1334 something complex. Closes: #89311
1335 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
1337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
1339 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
1341 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
1342 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
1343 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
1344 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
1346 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
1348 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
1351 through loop. Closes: #98598
1353 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
1355 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1357 * Missing semi-colon.
1358 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
1359 this (dh_* should be called, really).
1361 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
1363 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1365 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
1366 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
1367 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
1368 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
1372 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
1375 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
1376 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
1380 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
1383 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
1385 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
1387 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
1390 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
1391 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
1395 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
1398 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
1399 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
1400 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
1402 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
1404 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1406 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
1407 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
1408 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
1409 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
1413 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
1416 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
1418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
1420 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1422 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
1424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
1426 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1428 * Typo, Closes: #92407
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
1432 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
1438 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
1442 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
1444 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1446 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
1447 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
1449 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
1451 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1453 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
1454 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
1455 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
1456 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
1457 followed. Closes: #85483
1459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
1461 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
1463 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
1464 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
1465 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
1467 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
1469 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
1471 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
1472 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
1473 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
1474 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
1475 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
1476 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
1477 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
1478 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
1479 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
1480 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
1481 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
1482 Closes: #88464, #77743
1483 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
1484 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
1485 us to deal with that gracefully.
1486 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
1488 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
1489 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
1490 a while, Closes: #51225
1492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
1494 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
1498 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
1500 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
1503 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
1505 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
1507 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
1511 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
1514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
1516 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
1518 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
1519 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
1520 don't make packlist files.
1521 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
1522 debhelper coding standards.
1523 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
1524 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
1526 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
1528 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1530 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
1531 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
1533 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
1535 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1537 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
1538 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
1539 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
1540 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
1541 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
1542 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
1543 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
1544 but is mildly deprecated.
1545 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
1546 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
1547 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
1548 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
1549 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
1550 switching to statoverrides..
1551 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
1552 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
1553 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
1554 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
1555 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
1556 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
1558 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
1559 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
1560 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
1561 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
1562 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
1563 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
1564 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
1565 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
1566 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
1568 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
1569 variable names, pod man pages).
1570 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
1571 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
1572 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
1573 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
1574 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
1575 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
1576 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
1578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
1580 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
1584 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
1586 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
1588 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
1591 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
1593 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
1595 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
1596 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
1600 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
1602 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
1603 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
1604 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
1606 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
1608 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
1610 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
1611 they were previously ignored.
1613 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
1615 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
1617 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
1618 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
1620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
1622 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
1624 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
1625 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
1626 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
1628 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
1630 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
1632 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
1634 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
1636 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
1638 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
1639 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
1641 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
1643 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
1645 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
1646 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
1647 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
1648 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
1649 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
1650 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
1651 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
1652 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
1653 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
1654 it is an obsolete program.
1656 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
1658 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
1660 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
1662 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
1664 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
1666 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
1668 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
1670 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
1672 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
1674 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
1676 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
1678 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
1680 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
1682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
1684 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
1688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
1690 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * typo: Closes, #78567
1694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
1696 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1698 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
1700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
1702 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1704 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
1708 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
1711 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
1712 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
1713 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
1714 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
1715 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
1717 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
1719 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1721 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
1722 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
1725 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
1727 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1729 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
1730 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
1731 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
1732 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
1733 backwards-compatability.
1735 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
1737 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1739 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
1740 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
1741 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
1742 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
1743 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
1744 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
1745 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
1747 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
1748 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
1749 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
1751 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
1753 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
1754 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
1755 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
1756 should now be raised to severity important..
1757 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
1758 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
1760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
1762 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
1764 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
1765 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
1768 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
1770 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
1772 * Typo, Closes: #77441
1774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
1776 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * Completed the fix from the last version.
1780 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
1782 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
1786 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
1788 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
1790 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
1793 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
1795 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
1797 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
1798 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
1799 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
1800 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
1801 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
1805 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
1809 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
1811 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
1814 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
1815 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
1816 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
1817 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
1818 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
1819 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
1822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
1824 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
1826 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
1827 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
1829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
1831 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
1835 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
1837 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
1839 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
1840 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
1843 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
1845 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
1847 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
1848 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
1849 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
1850 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
1851 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
1853 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
1855 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
1857 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
1859 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
1862 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1864 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
1865 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
1866 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
1869 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
1871 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
1872 the TODO entry about it.
1874 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
1876 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
1878 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
1881 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
1883 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
1885 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
1886 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
1887 prevent that. Closes: #73052
1889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
1891 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
1893 * Typo, Closes: #72932
1894 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
1895 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
1896 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
1897 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
1899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
1901 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
1903 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
1905 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
1907 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
1912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
1914 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
1917 (this appears to be logal).
1919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
1921 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
1923 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
1924 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
1925 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
1926 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
1927 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
1929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
1931 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
1933 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
1935 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
1937 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
1939 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
1940 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
1941 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
1942 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
1943 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
1945 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
1947 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
1951 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
1953 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
1955 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
1956 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
1958 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
1960 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
1962 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
1967 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
1970 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
1971 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
1972 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
1975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
1977 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
1979 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
1982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
1984 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
1986 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
1988 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
1990 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1992 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
1993 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
1994 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
1995 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
1996 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
1997 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
1998 notice until v2 is complete.
1999 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
2000 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
2001 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
2002 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
2003 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
2004 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
2006 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
2007 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
2008 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
2009 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
2011 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
2013 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
2015 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
2017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
2019 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
2021 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
2024 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
2026 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
2028 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
2029 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
2031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
2033 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
2035 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
2038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
2040 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
2042 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
2043 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
2044 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
2045 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
2046 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
2051 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
2054 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
2055 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
2056 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
2059 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
2061 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2063 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
2064 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
2065 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
2067 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
2069 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2071 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
2072 just skip files that end in -\d+.
2074 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
2076 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2078 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
2079 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
2081 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
2083 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2085 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
2090 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
2093 depend on the build and install targets.
2095 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
2097 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2099 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
2100 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
2102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
2104 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2106 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
2109 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
2111 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2113 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
2115 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
2117 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2119 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
2121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
2123 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
2125 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
2126 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
2127 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
2128 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
2129 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
2130 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
2131 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
2133 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
2134 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
2135 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
2136 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
2137 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
2138 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
2139 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
2141 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
2143 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2145 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
2147 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
2149 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2151 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
2153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
2155 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2157 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
2158 right place. Closes: #55065
2160 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
2162 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2164 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
2167 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
2169 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2171 * Make all examples rules files executable.
2172 * Copyright date updates.
2174 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
2176 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2178 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
2179 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
2182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
2184 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
2186 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
2188 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
2190 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2192 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
2195 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
2197 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2199 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
2201 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
2203 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
2205 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
2207 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
2209 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
2211 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
2213 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
2215 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
2217 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
2218 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
2219 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
2220 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
2221 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
2222 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
2223 bits until all files have been registered.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
2227 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_installmanpages:
2230 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
2231 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
2232 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
2233 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
2234 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
2235 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
2236 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
2237 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
2238 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
2239 otherwise change the result at all.
2241 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
2242 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
2243 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
2244 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
2245 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
2248 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
2250 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2252 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
2254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
2256 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2258 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
2259 act on files that don't exist.
2260 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
2261 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
2262 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
2264 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
2265 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
2266 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
2267 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
2271 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
2275 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
2277 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2279 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
2281 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
2283 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2285 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
2286 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
2288 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
2290 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2292 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
2293 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
2295 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
2296 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
2297 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
2299 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
2301 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2303 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
2304 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
2305 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
2306 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
2307 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
2308 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
2309 does not compress. Closes: #41733
2310 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
2312 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
2314 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
2316 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
2318 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2320 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
2323 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
2325 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2327 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
2329 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
2331 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2333 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
2335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
2337 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2339 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
2340 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
2342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
2344 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2346 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
2348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
2350 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2352 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
2354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
2356 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
2358 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
2359 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
2360 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
2361 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
2362 I made some changes, though:
2363 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
2364 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
2365 that is a clear violation of policy.
2366 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
2367 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
2368 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
2369 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
2370 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
2371 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
2372 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
2373 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
2374 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
2376 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
2378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
2380 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
2382 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
2384 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
2386 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
2388 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
2389 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
2391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
2393 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
2395 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
2396 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
2397 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
2400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
2402 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
2404 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
2406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
2408 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
2413 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
2415 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
2417 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
2418 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
2419 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
2420 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
2421 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
2422 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
2423 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
2424 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
2426 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
2428 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
2430 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
2432 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
2434 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
2436 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
2438 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
2439 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
2441 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
2443 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
2445 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
2447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
2449 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
2451 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
2452 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
2454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
2456 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
2458 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
2459 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
2460 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
2462 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
2464 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
2466 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
2471 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
2475 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
2477 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
2479 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
2481 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
2482 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
2483 for the dependancies to be generated.
2485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
2487 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
2489 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
2490 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
2492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
2494 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
2496 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
2497 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
2498 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
2499 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
2502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
2504 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
2506 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
2507 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
2508 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
2510 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
2512 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
2514 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
2516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
2518 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
2520 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
2522 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
2524 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
2526 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
2527 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
2529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
2531 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
2533 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
2535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
2537 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
2539 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
2540 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
2541 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
2542 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
2543 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
2544 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
2545 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
2546 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
2547 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
2548 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
2549 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
2550 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
2551 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
2555 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
2558 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
2559 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
2561 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
2562 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
2563 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
2564 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
2565 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
2566 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
2568 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
2569 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
2571 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
2573 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
2575 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
2576 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
2578 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
2580 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
2582 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
2585 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
2587 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
2589 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
2590 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
2593 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
2595 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
2597 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
2598 for building debhelper.
2599 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
2601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
2603 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
2605 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
2608 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
2610 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
2612 * Fixed makefile commit target.
2613 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
2615 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
2617 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
2620 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
2621 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
2622 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
2623 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
2624 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
2625 it's always available.
2627 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
2629 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2631 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
2632 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
2633 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
2634 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
2636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
2638 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
2640 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
2641 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
2642 modules. (Closes: #42171)
2644 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
2646 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
2648 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
2650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
2652 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
2654 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
2655 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
2657 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
2659 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
2661 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
2663 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
2665 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
2667 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
2668 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
2669 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
2670 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
2672 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
2674 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
2676 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
2677 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
2680 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
2682 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
2684 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
2685 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
2686 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
2688 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
2689 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
2691 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
2693 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
2695 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
2697 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
2699 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
2701 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
2703 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
2705 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
2707 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
2708 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
2710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
2712 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
2714 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
2715 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
2716 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
2718 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
2720 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
2722 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
2724 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
2725 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
2726 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
2727 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
2729 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
2731 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
2733 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
2734 things if CDPATH is set.
2736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
2738 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
2740 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
2742 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
2744 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
2746 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
2747 seems to make sense for the transition.
2749 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
2751 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
2753 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
2754 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
2757 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
2759 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
2761 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
2762 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
2763 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
2765 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
2767 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
2769 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
2770 that version. (Closes: #40589)
2772 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
2774 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
2776 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
2777 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
2778 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
2779 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
2780 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
2782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
2784 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
2786 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
2788 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
2790 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
2792 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
2793 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
2794 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
2795 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
2796 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
2797 * debhelper.1: documented this.
2798 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
2799 current compatability level is equal to that number.
2800 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
2801 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
2802 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
2805 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
2807 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
2809 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
2810 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
2811 * README: mention doc/v2
2812 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
2813 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
2815 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
2817 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
2819 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
2820 be using this script RSN.
2822 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
2824 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
2826 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
2827 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
2828 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
2829 more than 1 init script.
2831 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
2833 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
2835 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
2836 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
2838 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
2840 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
2842 * Changed perl version detection.
2843 * Changed call to find.
2845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
2847 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
2849 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
2850 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
2852 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
2857 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * Really include dh_installpam.
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
2863 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
2866 * Wrote man page for same.
2868 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
2870 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
2872 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
2873 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
2874 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
2877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
2879 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
2881 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
2886 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
2888 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
2889 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
2890 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
2891 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
2892 x bit was being set!
2894 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
2896 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
2898 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
2899 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
2900 well. (Closes: 38900)
2902 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
2904 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
2906 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
2907 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
2908 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
2910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
2912 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
2914 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
2916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
2918 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
2920 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
2923 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
2925 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
2927 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
2929 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
2931 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
2933 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
2934 help from Julian Gilbey.
2935 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
2936 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
2937 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
2938 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
2939 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
2940 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
2941 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
2944 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
2946 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
2948 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
2952 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
2959 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
2965 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
2969 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
2971 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
2973 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
2974 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
2976 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
2978 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
2980 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
2981 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
2983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
2985 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
2987 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
2988 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
2990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
2992 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
2994 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
2996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
2998 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
3000 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
3001 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
3003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
3005 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
3007 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
3009 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
3011 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
3013 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
3017 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
3020 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
3021 may be deleted. (#35845)
3023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
3025 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
3027 * Various man page enhancements.
3028 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
3031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
3033 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
3035 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
3036 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
3037 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
3039 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
3041 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
3043 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
3044 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
3045 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
3046 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
3048 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
3049 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
3052 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
3054 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
3056 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
3058 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
3060 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
3062 * Another very minor typo fix.
3064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
3066 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
3068 * Very minor typo fix.
3070 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
3072 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
3074 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
3075 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
3076 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
3078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
3080 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
3082 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
3084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
3086 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
3088 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
3089 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
3090 variables properly (#34850).
3092 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
3094 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
3096 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
3098 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
3100 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
3102 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
3103 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
3104 (automatically generated by build process).
3106 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
3108 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
3110 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
3112 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
3114 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
3116 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
3117 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
3118 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
3120 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
3122 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
3124 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
3126 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
3127 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
3129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
3131 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
3133 * README: minor typo fix.
3135 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
3137 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
3139 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
3140 leave it at that. :-)
3142 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
3144 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
3146 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
3148 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
3150 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
3152 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
3154 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
3156 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
3158 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
3159 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
3160 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
3161 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
3163 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
3165 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
3167 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
3168 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
3170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
3172 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
3174 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
3175 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
3177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
3179 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
3181 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
3182 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
3183 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
3184 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
3185 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
3187 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
3189 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
3191 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
3192 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
3193 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
3194 Craig Small for spotting this.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
3198 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
3201 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
3202 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
3204 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
3206 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
3208 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
3210 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
3212 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
3214 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
3215 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
3217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
3219 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
3221 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
3222 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
3223 working on the last version of debhelper.
3225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
3227 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
3229 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
3230 being made. (#23255)
3232 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
3234 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
3236 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
3238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
3240 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
3242 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
3243 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
3245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
3247 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
3249 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
3250 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
3251 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
3252 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
3253 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
3255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
3257 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
3259 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
3260 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
3261 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
3262 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
3263 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
3265 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
3266 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
3268 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
3271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
3273 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
3275 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
3277 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
3279 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
3281 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
3283 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
3285 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
3287 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
3288 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
3289 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
3290 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
3291 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
3292 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
3293 suidregister actually supports it.
3294 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
3295 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
3297 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
3299 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
3301 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
3304 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
3306 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
3308 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
3309 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
3310 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
3311 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
3312 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
3313 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
3314 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
3315 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
3319 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
3321 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
3322 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
3324 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
3326 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
3328 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
3329 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
3330 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
3331 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
3332 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
3334 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
3336 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
3338 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
3339 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
3341 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
3342 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
3343 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
3344 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
3345 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
3346 effect, either. (#30118)
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
3350 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
3352 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
3354 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
3356 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
3358 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
3359 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
3360 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
3362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
3364 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
3366 * Spelling and typo fixes.
3368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
3370 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
3372 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
3373 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
3374 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
3375 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
3376 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
3378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
3380 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
3382 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
3383 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
3384 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
3386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
3388 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
3390 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
3392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
3394 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
3396 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
3397 packages, painlessly.
3399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
3401 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
3403 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
3405 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
3407 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
3409 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
3411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
3413 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
3415 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
3417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
3419 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
3421 * The perl conversion is complete.
3423 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
3425 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
3426 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
3427 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
3430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
3432 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
3434 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
3435 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
3436 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
3437 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
3439 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
3441 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
3443 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
3444 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
3446 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
3448 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
3449 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
3453 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
3455 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
3456 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
3457 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
3459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
3461 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
3463 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
3465 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
3467 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
3469 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
3470 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
3471 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
3472 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
3473 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
3474 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
3476 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
3478 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
3480 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
3481 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
3482 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
3483 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
3484 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
3486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
3488 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
3490 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
3491 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
3493 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
3495 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
3497 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
3498 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
3499 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
3500 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
3501 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
3502 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
3503 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
3504 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
3505 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
3507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
3509 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
3511 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
3513 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
3515 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
3517 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
3518 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
3519 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
3520 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
3523 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
3525 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
3527 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
3528 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
3530 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
3532 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
3534 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
3535 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
3537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
3539 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
3541 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
3542 sections of shared libraries.
3543 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
3544 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
3545 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
3546 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
3547 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
3548 things you don't want them to.
3549 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
3550 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
3552 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
3554 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
3556 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
3557 shared libraries. (#26414)
3559 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
3561 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
3563 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
3564 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
3565 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
3566 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
3568 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
3570 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
3572 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
3574 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
3576 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
3577 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
3578 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
3579 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
3580 the program to not fail. (#26214)
3582 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
3584 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
3586 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
3587 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
3589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
3591 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
3593 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
3594 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
3595 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
3598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
3600 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
3602 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
3603 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
3605 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
3607 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
3609 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
3610 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
3611 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
3612 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
3613 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
3614 I apologize for the inconvenience.
3616 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
3617 remove debian/files properly.
3618 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
3619 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
3620 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
3621 * Removed bogus menu file.
3623 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
3625 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
3627 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
3628 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
3630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
3632 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
3634 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
3635 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
3636 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
3637 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
3638 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
3639 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
3640 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
3642 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
3644 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
3646 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
3647 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
3648 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
3649 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
3650 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
3652 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
3654 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
3656 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
3659 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
3661 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
3663 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
3664 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
3665 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
3667 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
3668 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
3669 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
3670 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
3671 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
3672 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
3674 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
3676 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3678 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
3679 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
3680 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
3681 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
3682 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
3683 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
3684 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
3685 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
3686 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
3687 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
3688 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
3689 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
3690 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
3691 passed any switches.
3692 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
3694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
3696 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3698 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
3699 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
3700 at all for a long while.
3701 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
3702 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
3703 large chunks in the process.
3704 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
3705 install many oddly named files it died on before.
3706 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
3709 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
3711 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
3713 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
3714 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
3716 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
3719 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
3721 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
3723 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
3724 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
3725 that don't always have the same files in them.
3726 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
3727 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
3728 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
3730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
3732 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
3734 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
3736 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
3737 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
3738 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
3739 updating 27 man pages.
3740 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
3741 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
3742 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
3743 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
3744 programs act on. (#25247)
3746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
3748 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
3752 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
3753 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
3754 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
3755 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
3756 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
3757 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
3760 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
3762 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
3764 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
3767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
3769 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
3771 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
3774 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
3776 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
3778 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
3779 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
3781 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
3783 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
3785 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
3787 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
3789 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
3791 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
3792 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
3793 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3794 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
3795 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
3796 package by accident.
3797 * Is version 1.0 next?
3799 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
3801 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
3803 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
3804 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
3805 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
3807 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
3809 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
3811 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
3812 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
3813 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
3814 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
3815 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
3816 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
3818 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
3821 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
3823 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
3825 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
3826 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
3827 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
3829 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
3831 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
3833 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
3834 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
3836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
3838 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
3840 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
3841 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
3842 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
3845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
3847 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
3849 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
3851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
3853 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
3855 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
3856 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
3857 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
3860 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
3862 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
3864 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
3866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
3868 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
3870 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
3871 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
3872 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
3873 past week. Thanks, guys!
3875 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
3876 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
3877 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
3878 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
3879 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
3880 would do in the same situation.
3881 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
3882 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
3884 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
3886 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
3887 permissions changed.
3888 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
3889 some people enjoy changing root's name.
3890 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
3891 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
3892 files are treated identically.
3893 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
3894 * Minor man page fixes.
3895 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
3896 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
3897 --no-act is on. (#23054)
3899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
3901 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
3903 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
3904 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
3905 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
3906 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
3907 use -X multiple times, too.
3908 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
3909 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
3911 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
3913 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
3915 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
3916 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
3917 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
3919 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
3921 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
3923 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
3924 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
3926 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
3928 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
3930 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
3931 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
3932 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
3933 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
3934 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
3935 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
3936 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
3937 shape if you're starting a new package.
3939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
3941 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
3943 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
3944 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
3946 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
3948 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
3950 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
3951 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
3952 because of missing symlinks.
3954 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
3956 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
3958 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
3960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
3962 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
3964 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
3965 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
3966 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
3967 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
3968 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
3969 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
3971 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
3972 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
3974 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
3976 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3978 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
3979 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
3980 to be changed after the fact :-)
3981 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
3983 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
3985 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3987 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
3988 no version string after the -V.
3990 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
3992 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3994 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
3995 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
3998 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
4000 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
4002 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
4003 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
4005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
4007 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
4009 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
4010 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
4011 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
4012 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
4013 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
4014 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
4015 I always welcome corrections!
4017 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
4019 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
4021 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
4023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
4025 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
4027 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
4028 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
4029 * Documented this new switch.
4031 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
4033 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
4035 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
4036 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
4037 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
4038 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
4039 no packages use the old behavior.
4041 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
4043 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
4045 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
4046 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
4047 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
4049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
4051 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
4053 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
4054 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
4056 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
4058 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
4060 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
4062 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
4064 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
4066 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
4067 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
4069 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
4071 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
4073 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
4074 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
4075 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
4076 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
4078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
4080 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
4082 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
4084 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
4086 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
4088 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
4089 into the source package by accident.
4091 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
4093 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
4095 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
4096 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
4097 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
4098 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
4099 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
4100 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
4101 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
4104 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
4106 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
4108 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
4110 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
4111 inspired to implement some of it.
4112 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
4114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
4116 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
4118 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
4119 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
4121 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
4123 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
4125 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
4126 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
4127 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
4129 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
4131 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
4133 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
4134 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
4135 have done.) (#17598)
4137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
4139 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
4141 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
4143 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
4145 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
4147 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
4149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
4151 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
4153 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
4154 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
4156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
4158 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
4160 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
4161 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
4162 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
4164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
4166 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
4168 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
4169 argument processor in perl.
4170 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
4171 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
4172 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
4173 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
4175 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
4177 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
4179 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
4180 type directories. (#16933)
4181 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
4182 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
4183 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
4184 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
4185 are supported. (#16935)
4186 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
4189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
4191 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
4193 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
4194 This has been broken since version 0.30.
4196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
4198 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
4200 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
4202 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
4203 version requirements in the shlibs file.
4204 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
4205 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
4206 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
4207 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
4209 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
4211 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
4213 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
4214 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
4215 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
4217 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
4218 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
4219 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
4220 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
4221 a given package, or -i or -a.
4222 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
4223 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
4224 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
4225 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
4226 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
4227 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
4228 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
4229 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
4230 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
4232 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
4233 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
4234 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
4236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
4238 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
4240 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
4241 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
4242 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
4245 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
4247 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
4249 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
4250 does not have a section.
4252 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
4254 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
4256 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
4257 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
4258 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
4259 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
4261 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
4263 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
4265 * Fixed typo #16215.
4267 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
4269 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
4271 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
4272 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
4273 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
4274 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
4275 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
4276 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
4279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
4281 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
4283 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
4284 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
4285 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
4286 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
4289 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
4291 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
4293 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
4295 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
4297 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
4299 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
4301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
4303 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
4305 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
4306 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
4307 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
4308 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
4309 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
4310 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
4311 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
4313 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
4315 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
4317 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
4319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
4321 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
4323 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
4324 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
4326 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
4328 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
4330 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
4331 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
4332 the dh_* programs (#15497).
4333 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
4335 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
4337 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
4339 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
4340 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
4342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
4344 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
4346 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
4348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
4350 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
4352 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
4353 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
4355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
4357 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
4359 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
4360 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
4362 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
4364 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
4366 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
4368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
4370 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
4372 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
4373 postinst, postrm, etc.
4375 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
4377 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
4379 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
4381 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
4383 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
4385 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
4386 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
4387 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
4388 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
4389 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
4390 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
4392 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
4394 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
4396 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
4397 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
4398 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
4400 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
4402 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
4404 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
4405 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
4407 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
4409 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
4411 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
4412 installing package files into.
4413 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
4416 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
4418 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
4420 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
4422 * Install examples/rules* executable.
4424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
4426 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
4428 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
4430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
4432 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
4434 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
4435 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
4437 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
4439 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
4441 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
4442 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
4443 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
4444 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
4445 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
4447 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
4449 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
4451 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
4452 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
4453 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
4454 multiple binary packages.
4455 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
4456 should rebuild them with this version.
4457 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
4459 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
4461 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
4463 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
4464 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
4466 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
4468 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
4470 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
4471 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
4473 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
4475 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
4477 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
4478 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
4479 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
4480 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
4481 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
4482 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
4483 debian/README.debian.
4484 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
4485 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
4486 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
4487 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
4488 in a few situations.)
4490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
4492 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
4494 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
4496 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
4498 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
4500 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
4502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
4504 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
4506 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
4507 * Fixed several man pages.
4509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
4511 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
4513 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
4514 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
4515 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
4517 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
4519 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
4521 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
4522 is ready for general use.
4523 * Added man pages for all commands.
4524 * Multiple binary package support.
4525 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
4526 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
4527 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
4529 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
4530 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
4531 auto-installed as parameters.
4532 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
4534 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
4537 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
4538 the package build directory it is to act on.
4539 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
4540 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
4541 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
4543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
4545 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
4547 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
4548 ready to replace debstd.
4550 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400