1 debhelper (3.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Fixed programmer's documentation of DOINDEP and DOARCH, Closes: #128546
4 * Fixed dh_builddeb SYNOPSIS, Closes: #128548
6 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:49:37 -0500
8 debhelper (3.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Began work on v4 support (and thus the large version number jump), and it
11 is only for the very brave right now since I will unhesitatingly break
12 compatability in v4 mode as I'm developing it. Currently, updating to v4
13 mode will only make dh_makeshlibs -V generate shared library deps that
14 omit the debian part of the version number. The reasoning behind this
15 change is that the debian revision should not typically break binary
16 compatability, that existing use of -V is causing too tight versioned
17 deps, and that if you do need to include the debian revision for some
18 reason, you can always write it out by hand. Closes: #101497
19 * dh_testversion is deprecated -- use build deps instead. A warning message
20 is now output when it runs. Currently used by: 381 packages.
21 * dh_installxaw is deprecated -- xaw-wrappers in no longer in the
22 distribution. A warning message is now output when it runs. Currently used
23 by: 3 packages (bugs filed).
24 * Added referneces to menufile in dh_installmenu man page. Closes: #127978
25 (dh_make is not a part of debhelper, if you want it changed, file a bug on
28 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 5 Jan 2002 22:45:09 -0500
30 debhelper (3.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
32 * Added a version to the perl build dep, Closes: #126677
34 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:39:46 -0500
36 debhelper (3.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
38 * dh_strip: run file using a safe pipe open, that will not expose any weird
39 characters in filenames to a shell. Closes: #126491
40 * fixed dh_testdir man page
42 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 26 Dec 2001 21:15:42 -0500
44 debhelper (3.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
46 * Typo, Closes: #122679
47 * Export dirname from Dh_Lib, and related cleanup, Closes: #125770
48 * Document dirname, basename in PROGRAMMING
50 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Dec 2001 11:58:52 -0500
52 debhelper (3.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
54 * Man page cleanups, Closes: #119335
56 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:04:15 -0500
58 debhelper (3.0.50) unstable; urgency=low
60 * dh_undocumented: check for existing uncompressed man pages. Closes: #87972
61 * Optimized dh_installdeb conffile finding. Closes: #119035
62 * dh_installdeb: changed the #!/bin/sh -e to set -e on a new line. Whether
63 this additional bloat is worth it to make it easier for people to sh -x
64 a script by hand is debatable either way, I guess. Closes: #119046
65 * Added a check for duplicated package stanzas in debian/control,
68 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:00:54 -0500
70 debhelper (3.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
72 * More informative error, Closes: #118767
74 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:12:11 -0500
76 debhelper (3.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
78 * Added .zip and .jar to list of things to compress (Closes: #115735),
79 and modified docs (Closes: #115733).
81 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Oct 2001 19:01:43 -0400
83 debhelper (3.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
85 * dh_installman: documented translated man page support, and made it work
86 properly. It was not stripping the language part from the installed
89 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 15:16:18 -0400
91 debhelper (3.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
93 * Typo, Closes: #114135
95 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:39:34 -0400
97 debhelper (3.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
99 * dh_installxfonts: Do not specify /usr/sbin/ paths; that should be in
100 the path and dpkg enforces it. Closes: #112385
102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:59 -0400
104 debhelper (3.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
106 * Added dh_strip to rules.multi2, and removed .TODO.swp. Closes: #110418
108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Aug 2001 15:22:41 -0400
110 debhelper (3.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
112 * dh_perl: made it use doit commands so -v mode works. Yeah, uglier.
114 Also some indentation fixes.
116 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Aug 2001 15:34:55 -0400
118 debhelper (3.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
120 * dh_movefiles: Typo, Closes: #106532
121 * Use -x to test for existance of init scripts, rather then -e since
122 we'll be running them, Closes: #109692
123 * dh_clean: remove debian/*.debhelper. No need to name files
124 specifically; any file matching that is a debhelper temp file.
125 Closes: #106514, #85520
127 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:47:35 -0400
129 debhelper (3.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
131 * Typo, Closes: #104405
133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Jul 2001 22:57:41 -0400
135 debhelper (3.0.39) unstable; urgency=low
137 * dh_compress: Don't compress .bz2 files, Closes: #102935
139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 30 Jun 2001 20:39:17 -0400
141 debhelper (3.0.38) unstable; urgency=low
143 * fixed doc bog, Closes: #102130
145 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jun 2001 21:08:15 -0400
147 debhelper (3.0.37) unstable; urgency=low
149 * Spellpatch, Closes: #101553
151 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 20 Jun 2001 22:03:57 -0400
153 debhelper (3.0.36) unstable; urgency=low
155 * Whoops, I forgot to revert dh_perl too. Closes: #101477
157 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:10:24 -0400
159 debhelper (3.0.35) unstable; urgency=low
161 * Revert change of 3.0.30. This broke too much stuff. Maybe I'll
162 change it in debhelper v4..
164 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:56:35 -0400
166 debhelper (3.0.34) unstable; urgency=low
168 * Unimportant spelling fix. Closes: #100666
170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:30:28 -0400
172 debhelper (3.0.33) unstable; urgency=low
174 * dh_gencontrol: Work around very strange hurd semantics
175 which allow "" to be an empty file. Closes: #100542
177 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jun 2001 18:15:19 -0400
179 debhelper (3.0.32) unstable; urgency=low
181 * Check that update-modules is present before running it, since modutils
182 is not essential. Closes: #100430
184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 10 Jun 2001 15:13:51 -0400
186 debhelper (3.0.31) unstable; urgency=low
188 * Remove dh_testversion from example rules file, Closes: #99901
190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 7 Jun 2001 20:24:39 -0400
192 debhelper (3.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
194 * dh_gencontrol: Added a documented interface for specifying substvars
195 data in a file. Substvars data may be put in debian/package.substvars.
196 (Those files used to be used by debhelper for automatically generated
197 data, but it uses a different internal filename now). It will be merged
198 with any automatically determined substvars data. See bug #98819
199 * I want to stress that no one should ever rely in internal, undocumented
200 debhelper workings. Just because debhelper uses a certian name for some
201 internally used file does not mean that you should feel free to modify
202 that file to your own ends in a debian package. If you do use it, don't
203 be at all suprised when it breaks. If you find that debhelper is lacking
204 a documented interface for something that you need, ask for it!
205 (debhelper's undocumented, internal use only files should now all be
206 prefixed with ".debhelper")
208 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:37:33 -0400
210 debhelper (3.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
212 * Added -X flag to dh_makeshlibs, for packages with wacky plugins that
213 look just like shared libs, but are not.
215 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:27:06 -0400
217 debhelper (3.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
219 * dh_clean: clean up temp files used by earlier versons of debhelper.
222 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 May 2001 16:24:09 -0400
224 debhelper (3.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
226 * Fixed issues with extended parameters to dh_gencontrol including spaces
227 and quotes. This was some histirical cruft that deals with splitting up
228 the string specified by -u, and it should not have applied to the set
229 of options after --. Now that it's fixed, any and all programs that
230 support a -- and options after it, do not require any special quoting
231 of the succeeding options. Quote just like you would in whatever
232 program those options go to. So, for example,
233 dh_gencontrol -Vblah:Depends='foo, bar (>= 1.2)' will work just as you
234 would hope. This fix does NOT apply to -u; don't use -u if you must do
235 something complex. Closes: #89311
236 * Made escape_shell output a lot better.
238 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 29 May 2001 17:54:19 -0400
240 debhelper (3.0.26) unstable; urgency=low
242 * Always include package name in maintainer script fragment filenames
243 and generated shlibs files (except for in DH_COMPAT=1 mode). This is a
244 purely cosmetic change, and if it breaks anything, you were using an
245 undocumented interface. Closes: #95387
247 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 16:31:46 -0400
249 debhelper (3.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
251 * dh_makeshlins: append to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at start, not each time
252 through loop. Closes: #98598
254 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 May 2001 14:16:50 -0400
256 debhelper (3.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Missing semi-colon.
259 * Call dh_shlibdeps as part of build process, as simple guard against
260 this (dh_* should be called, really).
262 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 10:27:34 -0400
264 debhelper (3.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
266 * dh_shlibdeps: the -l switch now just adds to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, if it is
267 already set. Newer fakeroots set it, and clobbering their settings
268 breaks things since they LD_PRELOAD a library that is specified in the
269 LD_LIBRARY_PATH. (blah) Closes: #97494
271 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 22:32:23 -0400
273 debhelper (3.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
275 * dh_installinfo: doc enchancement, Closes: #97515
276 * dh_md5sums: don't fail if pwd has spaces in it (must be scraping the
277 bottom of the bug barrel here). Closes: #97404
279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 14 May 2001 21:22:47 -0400
281 debhelper (3.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
283 * Corrected bashism (echo -e, DAMNIT), in rules file that resulted in a
284 corrupted Dh_Version.pm. Closes: #97236
286 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 12 May 2001 12:21:40 -0400
288 debhelper (3.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
290 * Modified the postrm fragment for dh_installxfonts to not try to delete
291 any files. The responsibility for doing so devolves onto update-fonts-*
292 (which don't yet, but will). See bug #94752
294 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 May 2001 13:30:43 -0400
296 debhelper (3.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
298 * Now uses html2text rather than lynx for converting html changelogs.
299 The program generates better results, and won't annoy the people who
300 were oddly annoyed at having to install lynx. Instead, it will annoy a
301 whole other set of people, I'm sure. Closes: #93747
303 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 May 2001 21:23:46 -0400
305 debhelper (3.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
307 * dh_perl: updates from bod:
308 - Provide minimum version for arch-indep module dependencies
309 (perl-policy 1,18, section 3.4.1).
310 - Always update substvars, even if Perl:Depends is empty.
312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Apr 2001 15:13:15 -0700
314 debhelper (3.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
316 * dh_shlibdeps: document that -l accepts multiple dirs, and
317 make multiple dirs absolute properly, not just the first.
319 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:20:30 -0700
321 debhelper (3.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
323 * Documented -isp, Closes: #93983
325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:16:47 -0700
327 debhelper (3.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
329 * Typo, Closes: #92407
331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:15:02 -0700
333 debhelper (3.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
335 * dh_strip: ensure that the file _ends_ with `.a'. Closes: #90647
337 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 20:21:11 -0800
339 debhelper (3.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
341 * dh_makeshlibs: more support for nasty soname formats, Closes: #90520
343 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2001 15:00:42 -0800
345 debhelper (3.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
347 * Applied a patch from Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg> to pass -e
348 to mkfontdir. Closes: #89418
350 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:03:29 -0800
352 debhelper (3.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
354 * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look
355 for *.so* files. This should work for the variously broken db3,
356 liballeg, and it will fix the problem with console-tools-dev, which
357 contained (arguably broken) absolute symlinks to real files, which were
358 followed. Closes: #85483
360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:55:58 -0800
362 debhelper (3.0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
364 * Fixed broken -e #SCRIPT# tests in init script start/stop/restart code.
365 Arrgh. All packages built with the old code (that is, all daemon
366 packages built with debhelper 3.0.9!) are broken. Closes: #89472
368 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:10:03 -0500
370 debhelper (3.0.9) unstable; urgency=low
372 * Modified to use dpkg-architecture instead of dpkg --print-architecture.
373 I hate this, and wish it wasn't necessary to make cross compiles for
374 the hurd work. Closes: #88494
375 * Now depends on debconf-utils for debconf-mergetemplates. Closes: #87321
376 * Continues to depend on lynx for html changelog conversions. Yes, these
377 and packages with translated debconf templates are rather rare, but
378 it makes more sense for debhelper to consistently depend on all utilities
379 it uses internally rather than force people to keep their dependancies
380 up to date with debhelper internals. If I decide tomorrow that w3m is
381 the better program to use to format html changelogs, I can make the
382 change and packages don't need to update their build dependancies.
383 Closes: #88464, #77743
384 * Test for init scripts before running them, since they are conffiles and
385 the admin may have removed them for some reason, and policy wants
386 us to deal with that gracefully.
387 * dh_makeshlibs: now uses objdump, should be more accurate. Closes:
389 * Wildcards have been supported for a while, Closes: #54197
390 * dh_installdocs and dh_link have been able to make doc-dir symlinks for
391 a while, Closes: #51225
393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:48:45 -0800
395 debhelper (3.0.8) unstable; urgency=low
399 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Feb 2001 23:31:31 -0800
401 debhelper (3.0.7) unstable; urgency=low
403 * dh_makeshlibs: only generate call to ldconfig if it really looks like
404 a given *.so* file is indeed a shared library.
406 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 23 Feb 2001 14:38:50 -0800
408 debhelper (3.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
410 * Corrected some uninitialized value stuff in dh_suidregister (actually
412 * dh_installman: fixed variable socoping error, so file conversions
415 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 16 Feb 2001 14:15:02 -0800
417 debhelper (3.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Updated dh_perl to a new version for the new perl organization and
420 policy. The -k flag has been done away with, as the new perl packages
421 don't make packlist files.
422 * Fixed some bugs in the new dh_perl and updated it to my current
423 debhelper coding standards.
424 * Use dh_perl to generate debhelper's own deps.
425 * Version number increase to meet perl policy.
427 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 13 Feb 2001 09:07:48 -0800
429 debhelper (3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
431 * Build-depends on perl-5.6, since it uses 2 argument pod2man.
432 * Cleanups of debhelper.1 creation process.
434 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:12:59 -0800
436 debhelper (3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
438 * Added dh_installman, a new program that replaces dh_installmanpages.
439 It is not DWIM. You tell it what to install and it figures out where
440 based on .TH section field and filename extention. I reccommend everyone
441 begin using it, since this is much better then dh_installmanpages's
442 evilness. I've been meaning to do this for a very long time..
443 Closes: #38673, #53964, #64297, #16933, #17061, #54059, #54373, #61816
444 * dh_installmanpages remains in the package for backwards compatability,
445 but is mildly deprecated.
446 * dh_testversion is deprecated; use build dependancies instead.
447 * dh_suidregister: re-enabled. Aj thinks that requiring people to stop
448 using it is unacceptable. Who am I to disagree with a rc bug report?
449 Closes: #84910 It is still deprecated, and it will still whine at you
450 if you use it. I appreciate the job everyone has been doing at
451 switching to statoverrides..
452 * Since dh_debstd requires dh_installmanpages (where do you think the
453 latter's evil interface came from?), I have removed it. It was a nice
454 thought-toy, but nobody really used it, right?
455 * Since the from-debstd document walks the maintainer through running
456 dh_debstd to get a list of debhelper commands, and since that document
457 has really outlives its usefullness, I removed it too. Use dh-make
459 * dh_installman installs only into /usr/share/man, not the X11R6
460 directory. Policy says "files must not be installed into
461 `/usr/X11R6/bin/', `/usr/X11R6/lib/', or `/usr/X11R6/man/' unless this
462 is necessary for the package to operate properly", and I really doubt
463 a man page being in /usr/share/man is going to break many programs.
464 Closes: #81853 (I hope the bug submitter doesn't care that
465 dh_installmanpages still puts stuff in the X11R6/man directory.)
466 * dh_undocumented now the same too now.
467 * dh_installinit: installs debian/package.default files as /etc/default/
469 * Updated to current perl coding standards (use strict, lower-case
470 variable names, pod man pages).
471 * Since with the fixing of the man page installer issue, my checklist for
472 debhelper v3 is complete, I pronounce debhelper v3 done! Revved the
473 version number appropriatly (a large jump; v3 changes less than I had
474 planned). Note that I have no plans for a v4 at this time. :-)
475 * Testing: I have used this new version of debhelper to build a large
476 number of my own packages, and it seems to work. But this release
477 touches every file in this package, so be careful out there..
479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Feb 2001 14:29:58 -0800
481 debhelper (2.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
483 * Fixed a stupid typo in dh_suidregister, Closes: #85110
485 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:29:57 -0800
487 debhelper (2.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
489 * dh_installinit -r: stop init script in prerm on package removal,
492 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:06:31 -0800
494 debhelper (2.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
496 * dh_shlibdeps -l can handle relative paths now. Patch from Colin Watson
497 <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>, Closes: #84408
499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Feb 2001 13:35:39 -0800
501 debhelper (2.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
503 * Added a suggests to debconf-utils, Closes: #83643
504 I may chenge this to a dependancy at some point in the future,
505 since one debconf command needs the package to work.
507 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:39:54 -0800
509 debhelper (2.2.17) unstable; urgency=medium
511 * dh_installdebconf: marge in templates with a .ll_LL extention,
512 they were previously ignored.
514 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:05:21 -0800
516 debhelper (2.2.16) unstable; urgency=medium
518 * Bah, reverted that last change. It isn't useful because
519 dpkg-buildpackage reads the real control file and gets confused.
521 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:47:46 -0800
523 debhelper (2.2.15) unstable; urgency=medium
525 * Added the ability to make debhelper read a different file than
526 debian/control as the control file. This is very useful for various and
527 sundry things, all Evil, most involving kernel packages.
529 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:33:46 -0800
531 debhelper (2.2.14) unstable; urgency=medium
533 * Corrected globbing issue with dh_movefiles in v3 mode. Closes: #81431
535 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:33:59 -0800
537 debhelper (2.2.13) unstable; urgency=medium
539 * Fixed a man page typo, Closes: #82371:
540 * Added note to dh_strip man page, Closes: #82220
542 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:38:53 -0800
544 debhelper (2.2.12) unstable; urgency=medium
546 * suidmanager is obsolete now, and so is dh_suidmanager. Instead,
547 packages that contain suid binaries should include the binaries suid in
548 the .deb, and dpkg-statoverride can override this. If this is done
549 to a program that previously used suidmanager, though, you need to
550 conflict with suidmanager (<< 0.50).
551 * Made dh_suidmanager check to see if it would have done anything before.
552 If so, it states that it is obsolete, and refer users to the man
553 page, which now explains the situation, and then aborts the build.
554 If it would have done nothing before, it just outputs a warning that
555 it is an obsolete program.
557 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:17:50 -0800
559 debhelper (2.2.11) unstable; urgency=medium
561 * Fixed dh_installwm. Oops. Closes: #81124
563 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Jan 2001 10:18:38 -0800
565 debhelper (2.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
567 * dh_shlibdeps: re-enabled -l flag, it's needed again. Closes: #80560
569 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Tue, 26 Dec 2000 22:05:30 -0800
571 debhelper (2.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
573 * Fixed perl wanring, Closes: #80242
575 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:43:11 -0800
577 debhelper (2.2.8) unstable; urgency=medium
579 * dh_installwm: Moved update-alternatives --remove call to prerm,
581 * ALso guarded all update-alternatives --remove calls.
583 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:30 -0800
585 debhelper (2.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
589 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Dec 2000 17:12:15 -0800
591 debhelper (2.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
593 * typo: Closes, #78567
595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 2 Dec 2000 14:27:31 -0800
597 debhelper (2.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
599 * Oops, it was not expanding wildcard when it should.
601 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:59:33 -0800
603 debhelper (2.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
605 * dh_movefiles: added error message on file not found
607 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 20:25:52 -0800
609 debhelper (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
611 * If DH_COMPAT=3 is set, the following happens:
612 - Various debian/foo files like debian/docs, debian/examples, etc,
613 begin to support filename globbing. use \* to escape the wildcards of
614 course. I doubt this will bite anyone (Debian doesn't seem to contain
615 files with "*" or "?" in their names..), but it is guarded by v3 just
616 to be sure. Closes: #34120, #37694, #39846, #46249
618 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 20:43:26 -0800
620 debhelper (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
622 * dh_makeshlibs: corrected the evil db3-regex so it doesn't misfire on
623 data like "debian/libruby/usr/lib/ruby/1.6/i486-linux/etc.so".
626 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:21:53 -0800
628 debhelper (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
630 * Reverted the change to make debian/README be treated as README.Debian,
631 after I learned people use it for eg, documenting the source package
632 itself. Closes: #34628, since it seems this is not such an "incredibly
633 minor" change after all. Never underetimate the annoyance of
634 backwards-compatability.
636 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:01:52 -0800
638 debhelper (2.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
640 * DH_COMPAT=3 now enables the following new features which I can't just
641 turn on by default for fear of breaking backwards compatability:
642 - dh_makeshlibs makes the postinst/postrm call ldconfig. Closes: #77154
643 Patch from Masato Taruishi <taru@debian.org> (modified). If you
644 use this, be sure dh_makeshlibs runs before dh_installdeb; many
645 old rules files have the ordering backwards.
646 - dh_installdeb now causes all files in /etc to be registered as
648 - debian/README is now supported: it is treated exactly like
649 debian/README.Debian. Either file is installed as README.Debian in
650 non-native packages, and now as just README in native packages.
652 * This is really only the start of the changes for v3, so use with
654 * dh_du has finally been removed. It has been deprecated for ages, and
655 a grep of the archive shows that nothing is using it except biss-awt
656 and scsh. I filed bugs on both almost exactly a year ago. Those bugs
657 should now be raised to severity important..
658 * --number option (to dh_installemacsen) is removed. It has been
659 deprecated for a while and nothing uses it. Use --priority instead.
661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 26 Nov 2000 17:51:58 -0800
663 debhelper (2.1.28) unstable; urgency=low
665 * Ok, fine, I'll make debhelper depend on lynx for the one or two
666 packages that have html changelogs. But you'll be sorry...
669 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:13:39 -0800
671 debhelper (2.1.27) unstable; urgency=low
673 * Typo, Closes: #77441
675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:23:30 -0800
677 debhelper (2.1.26) unstable; urgency=low
679 * Completed the fix from the last version.
681 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 15 Nov 2000 20:39:25 -0800
683 debhelper (2.1.25) unstable; urgency=low
685 * Ok, I tihnk we have a db3 fix that will really work now.
687 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:59 -0800
689 debhelper (2.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
691 * I retract 2.1.23, the hack doesn't help make dpkg-shlibdeps work; db3
694 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:57 -0800
696 debhelper (2.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
698 * dh_makeshlibs: Also scan files named "*.so*", not just "*.so.*",
699 but only if they are files. This should make it more usable with
700 rather stupidly broken libraries like db3, which do not encode the
701 major version in their filenames. However, it cannot guess the major
702 version of such libraries, so -m must be used.
704 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Nov 2000 17:24:58 -0800
706 debhelper (2.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
708 * Fixed dh_perl to work with perl 5.6, Closes: #76508
710 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 7 Nov 2000 15:56:54 -0800
712 debhelper (2.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
714 * dh_movefiles: no longer does the symlink ordering hack, as
715 this is supported by dpkg itself now. Added a dependancy on
716 dpkg-dev >= 1.7.0 to make sure this doesn't break anything.
717 * While I'm updating for dpkg 1.7.0, I removed the -ldirectory hack
718 from dh_shlibdeps; dpkg-shlibdeps has its own much more brutal hack to
719 make this work. The switch is ignored now for backwards compatability.
720 * dh_suidregister will be deprecated soon -- dpkg-statoverride is a
723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 15:14:49 -0800
725 debhelper (2.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
727 * dh_suidregister: do not unregister on purge, since it will have already
728 been unregistered then, and a warning will result.
730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:02:50 -0800
732 debhelper (2.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
734 * dh_builddeb: Ok, it is cosmetic, but it annoyed me.
736 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Nov 2000 16:20:46 -0800
738 debhelper (2.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
740 * dh_builddeb: added a --filename option to specify the output filename.
741 This is intended to be used when building .udebs for the debian
744 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:41:20 -0700
746 debhelper (2.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
748 * dh_movefiles.1: well I thought it was quite obvious why it always used
749 debian/tmp, but it's a faq. Added some explanation. By the way, since
750 there now exists a documented way to use dh_movefiles that does not
751 have problems with empty directories that get left behind and so on, I
752 think this Closes: #17111, #51985
754 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:07:42 -0700
756 debhelper (2.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
758 * dh_movefiles: fixed a regexp quoting problem with --sourcedir.
760 * Whoops, I think I overwrote bod's NMU with 2.2.15. Let's merge those
763 debhelper (2.1.14-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
765 * Non-maintainer upload (thanks Joey).
766 * dh_installchangelogs, dh_installdocs: allow dangling symlinks for
767 $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE (useful for multi-binary packages).
770 -- Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> Fri, 20 Oct 2000 18:11:59 +1100
772 I also added some documentation to debhelper.1 about this, and removed
773 the TODO entry about it.
775 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 15:14:49 -0700
777 debhelper (2.1.15) unstable; urgency=low
779 * dh_installwm: patched a path in some backwards compatability code.
782 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Oct 2000 10:13:44 -0700
784 debhelper (2.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
786 * Rats, the previous change makes duplicate lines be created in the
787 shlibs file, and lintian conplains. Added some hackery that should
788 prevent that. Closes: #73052
790 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:32:22 -0700
792 debhelper (2.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
794 * Typo, Closes: #72932
795 * dh_makeshlibs: follow symlinks to files when looking for files that are
796 shared libraries. This allows it to catch files like
797 "liballeg-3.9.33.so" that are not in the *.so.* form it looks for, but
798 that doe have links to them that are in the right form. Closes: #72938
800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Oct 2000 18:23:48 -0700
802 debhelper (2.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
804 * Rebuild to remove cvs junk, Closes: #72610
806 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:39:06 -0700
808 debhelper (2.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
810 * dh_installmanpages: don't install files that start with .#* -- these
813 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2000 11:58:52 -0700
815 debhelper (2.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
817 * Modified to allow no spaces between control file field name and value
818 (this appears to be logal).
820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:13:17 -0700
822 debhelper (2.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
824 * dh_installmodules: corrected the code added to maintainer scripts so it
825 does not call depmod -a. update-modules (which it always called)_
826 handles calling depmod if doing so is appropriate. Packages built with
827 proir versions probably have issues on systems with non-modular
828 kernels, and should be rebuilt. Closes: #71841
830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:40:45 -0700
832 debhelper (2.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
834 * Fixed a stupid typo. Closes: #69750
836 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:14:48 -0700
838 debhelper (2.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
840 * debian/package.filename.arch is now checked for first, before
841 debian/package.filename. Closes: #69453
842 * Added a section to debhelper(1) about files in debian/ used by
843 debhelper, which documents this. Removed scattered references to
844 debian/filename from all over the man pages.
846 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 18:06:52 -0700
848 debhelper (2.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
850 * dh_strip: now knows about the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=nostrip thing.
852 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 20 Aug 2000 16:28:31 -0700
854 debhelper (2.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
856 * dh_installxfonts: corrected a problem during package removal that was
857 silently neglecting to remove the fonts.dir/alias files.
859 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:44:25 -0700
861 debhelper (2.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
863 * Whoops, I forgot to add v3 to cvs, so it was missing from a few
866 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Aug 2000 14:27:46 -0700
868 debhelper (2.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
870 * dh_shlibdeps: if it sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it now prints out a line
871 showing it is doing that when in verbose mode.
872 * examples/rules.multi: don't use DH_OPTIONS hack. It's too confusing.
873 rules.multi2 still uses it, but it has comments explaining the caveats
876 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:53:02 -0700
878 debhelper (2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
880 * Minor man page updates as Overfiend struggles with debhelperizing X
883 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jul 2000 00:25:32 -0700
885 debhelper (2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
887 * Never refer to root, always uid/gid "0". Closes: #67508
889 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:56:24 -0700
891 debhelper (2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
893 * I started work on debhelper v2 over a year ago, with a long list of
894 changes I hoped to get in that broke backwards compatability. That
895 development stalled after only the most important change was made,
896 although I did get out over 100 releases in the debhelper 2.0.x tree.
897 In the meantime, lots of packages have switched to using v2, despite my
898 warnings that doing so leaves packages open to being broken without
899 notice until v2 is complete.
900 * Therefore, I am calling v2 complete, as it is. Future non-compatabile
901 changes will happen in v3, which will be started soon. This means that
902 by using debhelper v2, one major thing changes: debhelper uses
903 debian/<package> as the temporary directory for *all* packages;
904 debian/tmp is no longer used to build binary packages out of. This is
905 very useful for multi-binary packages, and I reccommend everyone
907 * Updated example rules files to use v2 by default.
908 * Updated all documentation to assume that v2 is being used.
909 * Added a few notes for people still using v1.
910 * Moved all of the README into debhelper(1).
912 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Jul 2000 15:48:41 -0700
914 debhelper (2.0.104) unstable; urgency=low
916 * Put dh_installogrotate in the examples, Closes: #66986
918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:16:37 -0700
920 debhelper (2.0.103) unstable; urgency=low
922 * Added dh_installlogrotate. Yuck, 3 l's, but I want to folow my
925 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2000 00:51:03 -0700
927 debhelper (2.0.102) unstable; urgency=low
929 * Documented the full list of extra files dh_clean deletes, since people
930 are for some reason adverse to using -v to find it. Closes: #66883
932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:40:43 -0700
934 debhelper (2.0.101) unstable; urgency=low
936 * Killed the fixlinks stuff, since there are no longer any symlinks in
939 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:14:10 -0700
941 debhelper (2.0.100) unstable; urgency=low
943 * Modified all postinst script fragments to only run when called with
944 "configure". I looked at the other possibilities, and I don't think any
945 of the supported stuff should be called if the postist is called for
946 error unwinds. Closes: #66673
947 * Implemented dh_clean -X, to allow specification of files to not delete,
950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jul 2000 17:02:40 -0700
952 debhelper (2.0.99) unstable; urgency=low
954 * dh_installmodules will now install modiles even if etc/modutils already
955 exists (wasn't because of a logic error). Closes: #66289
956 * dh_movefiles now uses debian/movelist, rather than just movelist. This
957 is to fix an unlikely edge case involving a symlinked debian directory.
960 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jun 2000 14:24:12 -0700
962 debhelper (2.0.98) unstable; urgency=low
964 * dh_installdebconf: Automatically merge localized template
965 files. If you use this feature, you should build-depend on
966 debconf-utils to get debconf-mergetemplate.
968 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 May 2000 14:24:24 -0700
970 debhelper (2.0.97) unstable; urgency=low
972 * dh_installinfo: changed test to see if an info file is the head file to
973 just skip files that end in -\d+.
975 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 May 2000 14:11:04 -0700
977 debhelper (2.0.96) unstable; urgency=low
979 * dh_installmodules: still add depmod -a calls if run on a package that
980 has no debian/modules file, but does contain modules.
982 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 May 2000 15:32:42 -0700
984 debhelper (2.0.95) unstable; urgency=low
986 * Fixes for perl 5.6.
989 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 May 2000 13:35:11 -0700
991 debhelper (2.0.94) unstable; urgency=low
993 * examples/rules.multi2: binary-indep and binary-arch targets need to
994 depend on the build and install targets.
996 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:09:26 -0700
998 debhelper (2.0.93) unstable; urgency=low
1000 * Patch from Pedro Guerreiro to make install-docs only be called on
1001 configure and remove/upgrade. Closes: #62513
1003 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Apr 2000 19:05:52 -0700
1005 debhelper (2.0.92) unstable; urgency=low
1007 * Detect changelog parse failures and use a better error message.
1010 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Apr 2000 20:02:16 -0700
1012 debhelper (2.0.91) unstable; urgency=low
1014 * Fixed a silly typo in dh_installmanpages, Closes: #60727
1016 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Mar 2000 23:23:01 -0800
1018 debhelper (2.0.90) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Fixed dh_testversion; broken in last release.
1022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 4 Mar 2000 13:16:58 -0800
1024 debhelper (2.0.89) unstable; urgency=low
1026 * Patch from Jorgen `forcer' Schaefer <forcer at mindless.com> (much
1027 modified)to make dh_installwm use new window manager registration method,
1028 update-alternatives. Closes: #52156, #34684 (latter bug is obsolete)
1029 * Fixed $dh{flavor} to be upper-case.
1030 * Deprecated dh_installemavcsen --number; use --priority instead. Also,
1031 the option parser requires the parameter be a number now. And,
1032 dh_installwm now accepts --priority, and window manager packages should
1034 * dh_installwm now behaves like a proper debhelper command, and reads
1035 debian/<package>.wm too. This is a small behavior change; filenames
1036 specified on the command line no longer apply to all packages it acts
1037 on. I can't belive this program existed for 2 years with such a glaring
1038 problem; I guess most people don't need ot register 5 wm's in 3
1039 sub-packages. Anyway, it can handle such things now. :-)
1040 * Moved Dh_*.pm to /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/Debhelper. *big* change.
1042 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:39:56 -0800
1044 debhelper (2.0.88) unstable; urgency=low
1046 * Copyright update: files in the examples directory are public domain.
1048 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 23:16:39 -0800
1050 debhelper (2.0.87) unstable; urgency=low
1052 * Documented that lynx is used to convert html changelogs. Closes: #54055
1054 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Feb 2000 16:01:19 -0800
1056 debhelper (2.0.86) unstable; urgency=low
1058 * dh_testroot: don't call init(), so it may be run even if it's not in the
1059 right place. Closes: #55065
1061 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2000 21:40:21 -0800
1063 debhelper (2.0.85) unstable; urgency=low
1065 * Downgraded fileutils dependancy just a bit for the Hurd foks.
1068 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:41:29 -0800
1070 debhelper (2.0.84) unstable; urgency=low
1072 * Make all examples rules files executable.
1073 * Copyright date updates.
1075 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Jan 2000 15:10:55 -0800
1077 debhelper (2.0.83) unstable; urgency=low
1079 * Depend on the current unstable fileutils, because I have to use chown
1080 --no-dereference. I'm not sure when it started working, but it didn't work
1083 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 5 Jan 2000 14:22:26 -0800
1085 debhelper (2.0.82) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * Added dh_installmime calls to examples, Closes: #54056
1089 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 4 Jan 2000 09:35:19 -0800
1091 debhelper (2.0.81) unstable; urgency=low
1093 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin to update to fhs paths,
1096 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:21:34 -0800
1098 debhelper (2.0.80) unstable; urgency=low
1100 * Type fix, Closes: #52652
1102 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Dec 1999 13:47:48 -0800
1104 debhelper (2.0.79) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Corrected mispellings, Closes: #52013
1108 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Dec 1999 13:46:18 -0800
1110 debhelper (2.0.78) unstable; urgency=low
1112 * dh_fixperms: chown symlinks as well as normal files. Closes: #51169.
1114 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 1 Dec 1999 13:34:06 -0800
1116 debhelper (2.0.77) unstable; urgency=low
1118 * dh_suidregister: Fixed a rather esoteric bug: If a file had multiple
1119 hard links, and was suid, suidregister detected all the hard links as
1120 files that need to be registered. It looped, registering the first
1121 link, and then removing its suid bit. This messed up the registration
1122 of the other had links, since their permissions were now changed,
1123 leading to unpredictable results. The fix is to just not remove suid
1124 bits until all files have been registered.
1126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:26:42 -0800
1128 debhelper (2.0.76) unstable; urgency=low
1130 * dh_installmanpages:
1131 - Added support for translated man pages, with a patch from Kis Gergely
1132 <kisg@lme.linux.hu>. Closes: #51268
1133 - Fixed the undefined value problem in Kis's patch.
1134 - This also Closes: #37092 come to think of it.
1135 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_shlibdeps.1:
1136 - Added -X option, which makes it not examine some files. This is
1137 useful in rare cases. Closes: #51100
1138 - Always pass "-dDepends" before the list of files, which makes it
1139 easier to specify other -d parameters in the uparams, and doesn't
1140 otherwise change the result at all.
1142 - dh_installdebfiles is no longer a part of debhelper. This affects
1143 exactly one package in unstable, biss-awt, which has had a bug filed
1144 against it for 200+ days now asking that it stop using the program.
1145 dh_installdebfiles has been depreacted for nearly 2 years now..
1146 * This changelog was automatically generated from CVS commit information.
1149 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Nov 1999 21:59:00 -0800
1151 debhelper (2.0.75) unstable; urgency=low
1153 * Fixed typo in dh_installmenu.1, Closes: #51332
1155 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Nov 1999 20:40:15 -0800
1157 debhelper (2.0.74) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * dh_suidregister: Die with understandable error message if asked to
1160 act on files that don't exist.
1161 * dh_installchangelogs: to comply with policy, if it's told to act on a
1162 html changelog, it installs it as changelog.html.gz and dumps a plain
1163 text version to changelog.gz. The dumping is done with lynx.
1165 * Dh_Getopt.pm: Modified it so any options specified after -- are added to
1166 U_PARAMS. This means that instead of passing '-u"something nasty"' to
1167 dh_gencontrol and the like, you can pass '-- something nasty' without
1168 fiddling to get the quoting right, etc.
1170 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:36:15 -0800
1172 debhelper (2.0.73) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * Actually, debhelper build-depends on perl-5.005.
1176 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:55 -0800
1178 debhelper (2.0.72) unstable; urgency=low
1180 * Corrected slash substitution problem in dh_installwm.
1182 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:43:47 -0800
1184 debhelper (2.0.71) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * Oh, the build dependancies include all of debhelper's regular
1187 dependancies as well, since it builds using itself.
1189 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Nov 1999 14:14:26 -0800
1191 debhelper (2.0.70) unstable; urgency=low
1193 * Added build dependancies to this package. That was easy; it just uses
1194 perl5 for regression testing, the rest of its build-deps are things
1196 * dh_version.1: Added note that this program is quickly becoming obsolete.
1197 * doc/README, doc/from-debstd: Added reminders that if you use debhelper,
1198 you need to add debhelper to your Build-Depends line.
1200 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:24:37 -0800
1202 debhelper (2.0.69) unstable; urgency=low
1204 * dh_shlibdeps: added -l option, which lets you specify a path that
1205 LD_LIBRARY_PATH is then set to when dpkg-shlibdeps is run. This
1206 should make it easier for library packages that also build binary
1207 packages to be built with correct dependancies. Closes: #36751
1208 * In honor of Burn all GIFs Day (hi Don!), I added alternative
1209 image formats .png, .jpg (and .jpeg) to the list of extensions dh_compress
1210 does not compress. Closes: #41733
1211 * Also, made all extensions dh_compress skips be looked at case
1213 * dh_movefiles: force owner and group of installed files to be root.
1215 * Closes: #42650, #47175 -- they've been fixed forever.
1217 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:59 -0800
1219 debhelper (2.0.68) unstable; urgency=low
1221 * dh_installxfonts: Patch from Anthony Wong to fix directory searching.
1224 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Nov 1999 14:46:04 -0800
1226 debhelper (2.0.67) unstable; urgency=low
1228 * dh_installdebconf: Modified to use new confmodule debconf library.
1230 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:24:47 -0700
1232 debhelper (2.0.66) unstable; urgency=low
1234 * Fixed some problems with dh_installxfonts font dirs.
1236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 28 Oct 1999 00:46:43 -0700
1238 debhelper (2.0.65) unstable; urgency=low
1240 * dh_builddeb: -u can be passed to this command now, followed by
1241 any extra parameters you want to pass to dpkg-deb (Closes: #48394)
1243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:14:57 -0700
1245 debhelper (2.0.64) unstable; urgency=low
1247 * Corrected a path name in dh_installxfonts. Closes: #48315
1249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Oct 1999 14:24:03 -0700
1251 debhelper (2.0.63) unstable; urgency=low
1253 * Removed install-stamp cruft in all example rules files. Closes: #47175
1255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:23:09 -0700
1257 debhelper (2.0.62) unstable; urgency=low
1259 * Fixed problem with dh_installemacsen options not working, patch from
1260 Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@icp.inpg.fr>, Closes: #47738
1261 * Added new dh_installxfonts script by Changwoo Ryu
1262 <cwryu@dor17988.kaist.ac.kr>. Closes: #46684
1263 I made some changes, though:
1264 - I rewrote lots of this script to be more my style of perl.
1265 - I removed all the verbisity from the postinst script fragment, since
1266 that is a clear violation of policy.
1267 - I made the postinst fail if the mkfontdir, etc commands fail, because
1268 this really makes more sense. Consider idempotency.
1269 - I moved the test to see if the font dir is really a directory into the
1270 dh_ script and out of the snippet. If the maintainer plays tricks on
1271 us, mkfontdir will blow up satisfactorally anyway.
1272 - So, the snippet is 9 lines long now, down from 20-some.
1273 - I realize this isn't following the reccommendations made in Brando^Hen's
1274 font policy. I'll fight it out with him. :-)
1275 - In postrm fragment, used rmdir -p to remove as many parent directories
1277 - s:/usr/lib/X11/:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/:g
1279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Oct 1999 15:30:53 -0700
1281 debhelper (2.0.61) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * Clarified rules.multi2 comment. Closes: #46828
1285 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:21:02 -0700
1287 debhelper (2.0.60) unstable; urgency=low
1289 * dh_compress: After compressing an executable, changes the file mode to
1290 644. Executable .gz files are silly. Closes: #46383
1292 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 6 Oct 1999 13:05:14 -0700
1294 debhelper (2.0.59) unstable; urgency=low
1296 * dh_installdocs: if $TMP/usr/share/doc/$PACKAGE is a broken symlink,
1297 leaves it alone, assumming that the maintainer knows what they're doing
1298 and is probably linking to the doc dir of another package.
1301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:27:28 -0700
1303 debhelper (2.0.58) unstable; urgency=low
1305 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in xargs() that made boundry words be skipped.
1307 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 3 Oct 1999 18:55:29 -0700
1309 debhelper (2.0.57) unstable; urgency=low
1311 * Added note to man pages of commands that use autoscript to note they are
1314 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 1 Oct 1999 13:18:20 -0700
1316 debhelper (2.0.56) unstable; urgency=low
1318 * Fiddlesticks. The neat make trick I was using in rules.multi2 failed if
1319 you try to build binary-indep and binary-arch targets in the same make
1320 run. Make tries to be too smart. Modified the file so it will work,
1321 though it's now uglier. Closes: 46287
1322 * examples/*: It's important that one -not- use a install-stamp target.
1323 Install should run every time binary-* calls it. Otherwise if a binary-*
1324 target is called twice by hand, you get duplicate entries in the
1325 maintainer script fragment files. Closes: #46313
1327 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Sep 1999 12:01:40 -0700
1329 debhelper (2.0.55) unstable; urgency=low
1331 * Fixed quoting problem in examples/rules.multi (Closes: #46254)
1333 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 29 Sep 1999 12:06:59 -0700
1335 debhelper (2.0.54) unstable; urgency=low
1337 * Enhanced debconf support -- the database is now cleaned up on package
1339 * Broke all debconf support off into a dh_installdebconf script. This
1340 seems conceptually a little cleaner.
1342 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:12:53 -0700
1344 debhelper (2.0.53) unstable; urgency=low
1346 * Minor changes to rules.multi2.
1348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:57:17 -0700
1350 debhelper (2.0.52) unstable; urgency=low
1352 * dh_movefiles: if the wildcards in the filelist expand to nothing,
1353 don't do anything, rather than crashing.
1355 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:18:00 -0700
1357 debhelper (2.0.51) unstable; urgency=low
1359 * dh_installdocs: create the compatability symlink before calling
1360 install-docs. I'm told this is better in some cases. (Closes: #45608)
1361 * examples/rules.multi2: clarified what you have to comment/uncomment.
1363 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Sep 1999 12:43:09 -0700
1365 debhelper (2.0.50) unstable; urgency=medium
1367 * Oops. Fixed dh_shlibdeps so it actually generates dependancies, broke in
1370 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Sep 1999 19:00:10 -0700
1372 debhelper (2.0.49) unstable; urgency=low
1374 * dh_shlibdeps: detect statically linked binaries and don't pass them to
1376 * dh_installdeb: debconf support.
1378 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Sep 1999 00:28:59 -0700
1380 debhelper (2.0.48) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * 4 whole days without a debhelper upload! Can't let that happen. Let's see..
1383 * dh_installperl.1: explain what you have to put in your control file
1384 for the dependancies to be generated.
1386 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:15:05 -0700
1388 debhelper (2.0.47) unstable; urgency=low
1390 * dh_undocumented: installs links for X11 man pages to the undocumented.7
1391 page in /usr/share/man. (Closes: #44909)
1393 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 13:12:34 -0700
1395 debhelper (2.0.46) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * dh_installemacsen: the script fragments it generates now test for the
1398 existance of emacs-package-install/remove before calling them. Though
1399 a strict reading of the emacsen policy indicates that such a test
1400 shouldn't be needed, there may be edge cases (cf bug 44924), where it
1403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:54:37 -0700
1405 debhelper (2.0.45) unstable; urgency=low
1407 * dh_installdocs.1: clarified how the doc-id is determined. Closes: #44864
1408 * dh_makeshlibs: will now overwrite existing debian/tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs
1409 files, instead of erroring out. (Closes: #44828)
1411 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:15:33 -0700
1413 debhelper (2.0.44) unstable; urgency=low
1415 * dh_compress: fixed #ARGV bug (again) Closes: #44853
1417 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:04:15 -0700
1419 debhelper (2.0.43) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Corrected example rules files, which had some messed up targets.
1423 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:22:09 -0700
1425 debhelper (2.0.42) unstable; urgency=low
1427 * dh_installinfo: failed pretty miserably if the info file's section
1428 contained '/' characters. Doesn't now.
1430 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 16:33:13 -0700
1432 debhelper (2.0.41) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * dh_installinfo: use FHS info dir. I wonder how I missed that..
1436 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Sep 1999 13:22:08 -0700
1438 debhelper (2.0.40) unstable; urgency=low
1440 * FHS complience. Patch from Johnie Ingram <johnie@netgod.net>.
1441 For the most part, this was a straight-forward substitution,
1442 dh_installmanpages needed a non-obvious change though.
1443 * Closes: #42489, #42587, #41732.
1444 * dh_installdocs: Adds code to postinst and prerm as specified in
1445 http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-ctte-9908/msg00038.html,
1446 to make /usr/doc/<package> a compatability symlink to
1447 /usr/share/doc/<package>. Note that currently if something exists in
1448 /usr/doc/<package> when the postinst is run, it will silently not make
1449 the symlink. I'm considering more intellingent handing of this case.
1450 * Note that if you build a package with this version of debhelper, it will
1451 use /usr/share/man, /usr/share/doc, and /usr/share/info. You may need to
1452 modify other files in your package that reference the old locations.
1454 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Sep 1999 21:06:11 -0700
1456 debhelper (2.0.30) unstable; urgency=low
1458 * It turns out it's possible to set up make variables that are specific to
1459 a single target of a Makefile. This works tremendously well with
1460 DH_OPTIONS: no need to put "-i" or "-pfoo" after every debhelper command
1462 * debhelper.1: mentioned above technique.
1463 * examples/rules.multi: use the above method to get rid of -i's and -a's.
1464 * examples/rules.multi2: new file, example of a multi-binary package that
1465 works for arch-indep and arch-dependant packages, and also allows
1466 building of single binary packages independntly, via binary-<package>
1467 targets. It accomplishes all this using only one list of debhelper
1469 * examples/*: removed source and diff targets. They've been obsolete for 2
1470 years -- or is it 3? No need for a nice error message on failure anymore.
1472 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:28:24 -0700
1474 debhelper (2.0.29) unstable; urgency=low
1476 * dh_shlibdeps: Fixed quoting problem that made it fail on weird file names.
1477 Patch from Devin Carraway <debianbug-debhelper@devin.com>, Closes: #44016
1479 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 2 Sep 1999 13:40:37 -0700
1481 debhelper (2.0.28) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Oops, dh_installpam was omitted from the package. Added back.
1486 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:16:38 -0700
1488 debhelper (2.0.27) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * No user visible changes. Modified the package to interface better with
1491 my new local build system, which auto-updates the home page when a new
1494 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:20:40 -0700
1496 debhelper (2.0.25) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Corrected debian/fixlinks to make the correct debian/* symlinks needed
1499 for building debhelper.
1500 * Fixed rules file to create and populate examples and docs dirs. Oops.
1502 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:46:08 -0700
1504 debhelper (2.0.24) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * dh_installdocs: Handle trailing whitespace after Document: name.
1509 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0700
1511 debhelper (2.0.23) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * Fixed makefile commit target.
1514 * Misc changes to make CVS dirs not be copies into package.
1516 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:43:39 -0700
1518 debhelper (2.0.22) unstable; urgency=low
1520 * Checked all of debhelper into CVS.
1521 * Removed Test.pm (we have perl 5.005 now)
1522 * Skip CVS dir when running tests.
1523 * Since CVS is so brain dead about symlinks, added a debian/fixlinks script.
1524 Modified debian/rules to make sure it's run if any of the symlinks are
1525 missing. Also, made Makefile a short file that sources debian/rules so
1526 it's always available.
1528 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 22:35:12 -0700
1530 debhelper (2.0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1532 * Wow. It turns out dh_installdocs has been doing it wrong and doc-base
1533 files have the doc-id inside them. Applied and modified a patch from
1534 Peter Moulder <reiter@netspace.net.au> to make it use those id's instead
1535 of coming up with it's own. (Closes: #42650)
1537 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Aug 1999 10:24:10 -0700
1539 debhelper (2.0.20) unstable; urgency=low
1541 * dh_perl: Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to allow
1542 specification on the command line of alternate paths to search for perl
1543 modules. (Closes: #42171)
1545 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:42:08 -0700
1547 debhelper (2.0.19) unstable; urgency=low
1549 * dh_installinfo: fixed bug if a info file had no section.
1551 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Jul 1999 11:41:11 -0700
1553 debhelper (2.0.18) unstable; urgency=low
1555 * dh_installxaw: fixed multiple stanza problem, for real this time (patch
1556 misapplied last time). (Closes: #41862)
1558 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 1999 13:00:09 -0700
1560 debhelper (2.0.17) unstable; urgency=low
1562 * dh_clean: compat() wasn't exported.
1564 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 21 Jul 1999 12:49:52 -0700
1566 debhelper (2.0.16) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Dh_lib.pm: when looking for debhelper files in debian/, test with -f,
1569 not with -e, because it might fail if you're building a package named,
1570 say, 'docs', with a temp dir of debian/docs. I don't anticipate this
1571 ever happenning, but it pays to be safe.
1573 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 21:00:04 -0700
1575 debhelper (2.0.15) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * dh_clean: only force-remove debian/tmp if in v2 mode. In v1 mode, we
1578 shouldn't remove it because we may only be acting on a single package.
1581 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:00:15 -0700
1583 debhelper (2.0.14) unstable; urgency=low
1585 * Moved /usr/lib/debhelper to /usr/share/debhelper for FHS compliance
1586 (#41174). If you used Dh_lib or something in another package, be sure to
1587 update your "use" line and declare an appropriate dependancy. (Closes:
1589 * dh_installxaw: Patch from Josip Rodin <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr> to fix
1590 multiple-stanza xaw file support. (Closes: #41173)
1592 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:49:57 -0700
1594 debhelper (2.0.13) unstable; urgency=low
1596 * dh_fixperms: FHS fixes (#41058)
1598 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:07:49 -0700
1600 debhelper (2.0.12) unstable; urgency=low
1602 * dh_installinfo: fixed #SECTION# substitution.
1604 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:51:59 -0700
1606 debhelper (2.0.11) unstable; urgency=low
1608 * At long, long last, dh_installinfo is written. It takes a simple list of
1609 info files and figures out the rest for you. (Closes: #15717)
1611 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 17:04:48 -0700
1613 debhelper (2.0.10) unstable; urgency=low
1615 * dh_compress: compress changelog.html files. (Closes: #40626)
1616 * dh_installchangelogs: installs a link from changelog.html.gz to changelog.gz,
1617 because I think it's important that upstream changelogs always be accessable
1619 * dh_compress: removed the usr/share/X11R6/man bit. Note part of FHS.
1621 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:46:03 -0700
1623 debhelper (2.0.09) unstable; urgency=low
1625 * dh_compress: added some FHS support. Though debhelper doesn't put stuff
1626 there (and won't until people come up with a general transition strategy or
1627 decide to not have a clean transiotion), dh_compress now compresses
1628 various files in /usr/share/{man,doc,info}. (Closes: #40892)
1630 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Jul 1999 09:55:03 -0700
1632 debhelper (2.0.08) unstable; urgency=low
1634 * dh_*: redirect cd output to /den/null, because CD can actually output
1635 things if CDPATH is set.
1637 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jul 1999 10:14:00 -0700
1639 debhelper (2.0.07) unstable; urgency=low
1641 * Added dh_perl calls to example rules files.
1643 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 15:57:51 -0700
1645 debhelper (2.0.06) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Now depends on perl5 | perl, I'll kill the | perl bit later on, but it
1648 seems to make sense for the transition.
1650 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:56:03 -0700
1652 debhelper (2.0.05) unstable; urgency=low
1654 * dh_clean: clean debian/tmp even if v2 is being used. If you're
1655 using dh_movefiles, stuff may well be left in there, and it needs to be
1658 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jul 1999 13:23:46 -0700
1660 debhelper (2.0.04) unstable; urgency=low
1662 * Patch from Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr> to make dh_perl support a
1663 -d flag that makes it add a dependancy on the sppropriate perl-XXX-base
1664 package. Few packages will really need this. (Closes: #40631)
1666 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Jul 1999 11:22:00 -0700
1668 debhelper (2.0.03) unstable; urgency=low
1670 * Depend on file >= 2.23-1, because dh_perl uses file -b, introduced at
1671 that version. (Closes: #40589)
1673 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:41:12 -0700
1675 debhelper (2.0.02) unstable; urgency=low
1677 * If you're going to use v2, it's reccommended you call
1678 "dh_testversion 2". Added a note about that to doc/v2.
1679 * Dh_Lib.pm compat: if a version that is greater than the highest
1680 supported compatability level is specified, abort with an error. Perhaps
1681 there will be a debhelper v3 some day...
1683 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:08:14 -0700
1685 debhelper (2.0.01) unstable; urgency=low
1687 * Actually include doc/v2 this time round.
1689 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 14:01:55 -0700
1691 debhelper (2.0.00) unstable; urgency=low
1693 * Don't let the version number fool you. Debhelper v2 is here, but just
1694 barely. That's what all the zero's mean. :-)
1695 * If DH_COMPAT=2, then debian/<package> will be used for the temporary
1696 build directory for all packages. debian/tmp is no more! (Well, except
1697 dh_movefiles still uses it.)
1698 * debhelper.1: documented this.
1699 * Dh_lib.pm: added compat(), pass in a number, it returns true if the
1700 current compatability level is equal to that number.
1701 * doc/PROGRAMMING: documented that.
1702 * debhelper itself now builds using DH_COMPAT=2.
1703 * dh_debstd forces DH_COMPAT=1, because it needs to stay compatable with
1706 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:37:58 -0700
1708 debhelper (1.9.00) unstable; urgency=low
1710 * This is a release of debhelper in preparation for debhelper v2.
1711 * doc/v2: added, documented status of v2 changes.
1712 * README: mention doc/v2
1713 * debhelper.1: docuimented DH_COMPAT
1714 * examples/*: added DH_COMAPT=1 to top of rules files
1716 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:16:41 -0700
1718 debhelper (1.2.83) unstable; urgency=medium
1720 * dh_perl: fixed substvars typo. Urgency medium since a lot of people will
1721 be using this script RSN.
1723 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Jul 1999 11:44:05 -0700
1725 debhelper (1.2.82) unstable; urgency=low
1727 * dh_installinit: applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@multimania.com>
1728 to make it look for init.d scripts matching the --init-script parameter.
1729 This is only useful if, like Yann, you have packages that need to install
1730 more than 1 init script.
1732 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:38:05 -0700
1734 debhelper (1.2.81) unstable; urgency=low
1736 * dh_link: fixed bug #40159 and added a regression test for it. It was
1737 failing if it was given absolute filenames.
1739 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:12:44 -0700
1741 debhelper (1.2.80) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Changed perl version detection.
1744 * Changed call to find.
1746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 16:48:53 -0700
1748 debhelper (1.2.79) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Added dh_perl by Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>. dh_perl handles
1751 finding dependancies of perl scripts, plus deleting those annoying
1753 * I don't think dh_perl is going to be useful until the new version of
1756 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 24 Jun 1999 14:47:55 -0700
1758 debhelper (1.2.78) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Really include dh_installpam.
1762 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 15 Jun 1999 09:00:36 -0700
1764 debhelper (1.2.77) unstable; urgency=low
1766 * dh_installpam: new program by Sean <shaleh@foo.livenet.net>
1767 * Wrote man page for same.
1769 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 11 Jun 1999 13:08:04 -0700
1771 debhelper (1.2.76) unstable; urgency=low
1773 * dh_fixperms: Do not use chmod/chown -R at all anymore, instead it uses
1774 the (slower) find then chown method. Necessary because the -R methods will
1775 happyily attempt to chown a dangling symlink, which makes them fail.
1778 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:20:01 -0700
1780 debhelper (1.2.75) unstable; urgency=low
1782 * dh_installemacsen: fixed perms of install, remove scripts.
1785 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Jun 1999 14:42:12 -0700
1787 debhelper (1.2.74) unstable; urgency=low
1789 * dh_installmanpages: recognizes gzipped man pages and installs them.
1790 This is an experimental change, one problem is if your man page isn't
1791 already gzip-9'd, it will be in violation of policy. (closes: #38673)
1792 * The previous fix to dh_installemacsen was actually quite necessary - the
1793 x bit was being set!
1795 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 15:14:27 -0700
1797 debhelper (1.2.73) unstable; urgency=low
1799 * dh_installemacsen: make sure files are installed mode 0644. Not strictly
1800 necessary since dh_fixperms fixes them if you have a wacky umask, but oh
1801 well. (Closes: 38900)
1803 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:50:42 -0700
1805 debhelper (1.2.72) unstable; urgency=low
1807 * dh_installemacsen: use debian/package.emacsen-startup, not
1808 debian/package.emacsen-init. The former has always been documented to
1809 work on the man page (closes: #38898).
1811 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:16:57 -0700
1813 debhelper (1.2.71) unstable; urgency=low
1815 * Fixed a typo (closes: #38881)
1817 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Jun 1999 13:23:23 -0700
1819 debhelper (1.2.70) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * dh_installmanpages: Properly quoted metacharacters in $dir in regexp.
1824 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 May 1999 14:12:30 -0700
1826 debhelper (1.2.69) unstable; urgency=low
1828 * Don't include Test.pm in the binary package.
1830 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 23 May 1999 19:29:27 -0700
1832 debhelper (1.2.68) unstable; urgency=low
1834 * doc/README: updated example of using #DEBHELPER# in a perl script, with
1835 help from Julian Gilbey.
1836 * dh_link: generate absolute symlinks where appropriate. The links
1837 generated before were wrong simetimes (#37774)
1838 * Started writing a regression test suite for debhelper. Currently covers
1839 only the above bugfix and a few more dh_link tests.
1840 * Tossed Test.pm into the package (for regression tests) until we get perl
1841 5.005 which contains that package. That file is licenced the same as perl.
1842 * dh_installchangelogs: force all installed files to be owned by root
1845 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 May 1999 17:18:44 -0700
1847 debhelper (1.2.67) unstable; urgency=low
1849 * dh_installmodules: fixed type that made the program not work.
1851 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 May 1999 00:25:05 -0700
1853 debhelper (1.2.66) unstable; urgency=low
1855 * examples/rules.multi: dh_shlibdeps must be run before dh_gencontrol
1858 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 9 May 1999 14:03:05 -0700
1860 debhelper (1.2.65) unstable; urgency=low
1864 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 May 1999 21:46:03 -0700
1866 debhelper (1.2.64) unstable; urgency=low
1868 * dh_installmime: new command (#37093, #32684).
1870 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 May 1999 13:37:34 -0700
1872 debhelper (1.2.63) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * dh_installxaw: updated to work with xaw-wrappers 0.90 and above. It
1875 actually has to partially parse the xaw-wrappers config files now.
1877 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 19:13:34 -0700
1879 debhelper (1.2.62) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * dh_installemacsen: added support for site-start files. Added --flavor
1882 and --number to control details of installation. (#36832)
1884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 2 May 1999 15:31:58 -0700
1886 debhelper (1.2.61) unstable; urgency=low
1888 * dh_md5sums.1: dh_md5sums is not deprecated, AFAIK, but the manpage has
1889 somehow been modified to say it was at version 1.2.45.
1891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 19:54:04 -0700
1893 debhelper (1.2.60) unstable; urgency=low
1895 * dh_installexamples.1: recycled docs fix.
1897 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 26 Apr 1999 17:19:07 -0700
1899 debhelper (1.2.59) unstable; urgency=low
1901 * dh_builddeb: added --destdir option, which lets you tell it where
1902 to put the generated .deb's. Default is .. of course.
1904 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:02:01 -0700
1906 debhelper (1.2.58) unstable; urgency=low
1908 * autoscripts/postinst-suid: use /#FILE# in elif test (#36297).
1910 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:33:52 -0700
1912 debhelper (1.2.57) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * examples/*: killed trailing spaces after diff: target
1916 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 -0700
1918 debhelper (1.2.56) unstable; urgency=low
1920 * dh_suidregister: make the chown/chmod only happen if the file actually
1921 exists. This is useful if you have conffiles that have permissions and
1922 may be deleted. (#35845)
1924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Apr 1999 13:35:23 -0700
1926 debhelper (1.2.55) unstable; urgency=low
1928 * Various man page enhancements.
1929 * dh_md5sums: supports -X to make it skip including files in the
1932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 9 Apr 1999 18:21:58 -0700
1934 debhelper (1.2.54) unstable; urgency=low
1936 * dh_installinit.1: man page fixups (#34160).
1937 * *.1: the date of each man page is now automatically updated when
1938 debhelper is built to be the last modification time of the man page.
1940 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 8 Apr 1999 20:28:00 -0700
1942 debhelper (1.2.53) unstable; urgency=low
1944 * dh_compress: leave .taz and .tgz files alone. Previously trying to
1945 compress such files caused gzip to fail and the whole command to fail.
1946 Probably fixes #35677. Actually, it now skips files with a whole
1947 range of odd suffixes that gzip refuses to compress, including "_z" and
1949 * dh_compress.1: updated docs to reflect this, and to give the new
1950 suggested starting point if you want to write your own debian/compress
1953 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:20:14 -0700
1955 debhelper (1.2.52) unstable; urgency=low
1957 * dh_installmodules: new program, closes #32546.
1959 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:25:37 -0800
1961 debhelper (1.2.51) unstable; urgency=low
1963 * Another very minor typo fix.
1965 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:04:02 -0800
1967 debhelper (1.2.50) unstable; urgency=low
1969 * Very minor typo fix.
1971 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:27:01 -0800
1973 debhelper (1.2.49) unstable; urgency=low
1975 * dh_fixperms: if called with -X, was attempting to change permissions of
1976 even symlinks. This could have even caused it to follow the symlinks and
1977 modify files on the build system in some cases. Ignores them now. (#35102)
1979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:21:49 -0800
1981 debhelper (1.2.48) unstable; urgency=low
1983 * dh_fixperms.1: improved documentation. (#34968)
1985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Mar 1999 19:11:01 -0800
1987 debhelper (1.2.47) unstable; urgency=low
1989 * doc/README: updated the example of including debhelper shell script
1990 fragments inside a perl program -- the old method didn't work with shell
1991 variables properly (#34850).
1993 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 21 Mar 1999 13:25:33 -0800
1995 debhelper (1.2.46) unstable; urgency=low
1997 * doc/README: pointer to maint-guide.
1999 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:57 -0800
2001 debhelper (1.2.45) unstable; urgency=low
2003 * dh_installwm.1: fixed two errors (#34534, #34535)
2004 * debhelper.1: list all other debhelper commands with synopses
2005 (automatically generated by build process).
2007 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:33:39 -0800
2009 debhelper (1.2.44) unstable; urgency=medium
2011 * dh_fixperms: has been mostly broken when used with -X, corrected this.
2013 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:25:59 -0800
2015 debhelper (1.2.43) unstable; urgency=low
2017 * dh_compress.1: man page fixes (Closes: #33858).
2018 * dh_compress: now it can handle compressing arbitrary numbers of files,
2019 spawning gzip multiple times like xargs does, if necessary.
2021 * Dh_Lib.pm: added xargs() command.
2023 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:57:09 -0800
2025 debhelper (1.2.42) unstable; urgency=low
2027 * dh_m5sums: don't generate bogus md5sums file if the package contains no
2028 files. Yes, someone found a legitimate reason to do that.
2030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 25 Feb 1999 00:03:47 -0800
2032 debhelper (1.2.41) unstable; urgency=low
2034 * README: minor typo fix.
2036 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 23:30:00 -0800
2038 debhelper (1.2.40) unstable; urgency=low
2040 * Let's just say 1.2.39 is not a good version of debhelper to use and
2041 leave it at that. :-)
2043 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:55:27 -0800
2045 debhelper (1.2.39) unstable; urgency=low
2047 * dh_installcron: install files in cron.d with correct perms.
2049 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 22:28:38 -0800
2051 debhelper (1.2.38) unstable; urgency=low
2053 * dh_clean: don't try to delete directories named "core".
2055 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:13:40 -0800
2057 debhelper (1.2.37) unstable; urgency=low
2059 * dh_installdocs: Patch from Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>, fixes regexp error (Closes: #33431).
2060 * dh_installxaw: new program by Daniel Martin
2061 <Daniel.Martin@jhu.edu>, handles xaw-wrappers integration.
2062 * dh_installxaw.1: wrote man page.
2064 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:32:53 -0800
2066 debhelper (1.2.36) unstable; urgency=low
2068 * dh_compress.1: Fixed typo in man page. (Closes: #33364)
2069 * autoscripts/postinst-menu-method: fixed typo. (Closes: #33376)
2071 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:45:18 -0800
2073 debhelper (1.2.35) unstable; urgency=low
2075 * Dh_Lib.pm filearray(): Deal with multiple spaces and spaces at the
2076 beginning of lines in files. (closes: #33161)
2078 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:01:07 -0800
2080 debhelper (1.2.34) unstable; urgency=low
2082 * dh_clean: added -d flag (also --dirs-only) that will make it clean only
2083 tmp dirs. (closes: #30807)
2084 * dh_installdocs: to support packages that need multiple doc-base files,
2085 will now look for debian/<package>.doc-base.<doc-id>.
2086 * dh_compress: removed warning message (harmless).
2088 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:48:33 -0800
2090 debhelper (1.2.33) unstable; urgency=low
2092 * dh_compress: verbose_print() cd's.
2093 * dh_compress: clear the hash of hard links when we loop - was making
2094 dh_compress fail on multi-binary packages that had harlinks. Thanks to
2095 Craig Small for spotting this.
2097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:19:37 -0800
2099 debhelper (1.2.32) unstable; urgency=low
2101 * dh_suidmanager: if it cannot determine the user name or group name from
2102 the uid or gid, it will pass the uid or gid to suidmanager. This should
2103 probably never happen, but it's good to be safe.
2105 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Feb 1999 16:00:35 -0800
2107 debhelper (1.2.31) unstable; urgency=low
2109 * dh_installinit.1: minor typo fix (closes: #32753)
2111 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 2 Feb 1999 14:32:46 -0800
2113 debhelper (1.2.30) unstable; urgency=low
2115 * dh_fixperms: cut down the number of chmod commands that are executed
2116 from 3 to 1, no change in functionality.
2118 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Feb 1999 17:05:29 -0800
2120 debhelper (1.2.29) unstable; urgency=high
2122 * Do not include bogus chsh, chfn, passwd links in debhelper binary!
2123 These were acidentially left in after dh_link testing I did as I was
2124 working on the last version of debhelper.
2126 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:26:46 -0800
2128 debhelper (1.2.28) unstable; urgency=low
2130 * dh_link: fixed bug that prevent multiple links to the same source from
2131 being made. (#23255)
2133 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 24 Jan 1999 19:46:33 -0800
2135 debhelper (1.2.27) unstable; urgency=low
2137 * autoscripts/*menu*: "test", not "text"!
2139 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:18:52 -0800
2141 debhelper (1.2.26) unstable; urgency=low
2143 * dh_installdocs: use prerm-doc-base script fragement. Was using
2144 postrm-doc-base, for some weird reason.
2146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 18 Jan 1999 13:36:40 -0800
2148 debhelper (1.2.25) unstable; urgency=low
2150 * autoscripts/*menu*: It turns out that "command" is like test -w, it will
2151 still return true if update-menus is not executable. This can
2152 legitimatly happen if you are upgrading the menu package, and it makes
2153 postinsts that use command fail. Reverted to using test -x. Packages
2154 built with debhelper >= 1.2.21 that use menus should be rebuilt.
2156 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 16 Jan 1999 13:47:16 -0800
2158 debhelper (1.2.24) unstable; urgency=low
2160 * dh_fixperms: linux 2.1.x and 2.2.x differ from earlier versions in that
2161 they do not clear the suid bit on a file when the owner of that file
2162 changes. It seems that fakeroot behaves the same as linux 2.1 here. I
2163 was relying on the old behavior to get rid of suid and sgid bits on files.
2164 Since this no longer happens implicitly, I've changed to clearing the
2166 * There's also a small behavior change involved here. Before, dh_fixperms
2167 did not clear suid permissions on files that were already owned by root.
2169 * dh_fixperms.1: cleaned up the docs to mention that those bits are
2172 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 15 Jan 1999 16:54:44 -0800
2174 debhelper (1.2.23) unstable; urgency=low
2176 * autoscripts/postrm-wm: use "=", not "==" (#31727).
2178 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:35:00 -0800
2180 debhelper (1.2.22) unstable; urgency=low
2182 * Reversed change in last version; don't clobber mode (#31628).
2184 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 8 Jan 1999 15:01:25 -0800
2186 debhelper (1.2.21) unstable; urgency=low
2188 * dh_installdocs: Added doc-base support, if debian/<package>.doc-base
2189 exists, it will be installed as a doc-base control file. If you use this,
2190 you probably want to add "dh_testversion 1.2.21" to the rules file to make
2191 sure your package is built with a new enough debhelper.
2192 * dh_installdocs: now supports -n to make it not modify postinst/prerm.
2193 * dh_suidregister: turned off leading 0/1 in permissions settings, until
2194 suidregister actually supports it.
2195 * autoscripts/*: instead of "text -x", use "command -v" to see if various
2196 binaries exist. This gets rid of lots of hard-coded paths.
2198 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:50:04 -0500
2200 debhelper (1.2.20) unstable; urgency=low
2202 * dh_compress: handle the hard link stuff properly, it was broken. Also
2205 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 23 Dec 1998 19:53:03 -0500
2207 debhelper (1.2.19) unstable; urgency=low
2209 * dh_listpackages: new command. Takes the standard options taken by other
2210 debhelper commands, and just outputs a list of the binary packages a
2211 debhelper command would act on. Added because of bug #30626, and because
2212 of wn's truely ugly use of debhelper internals to get the same info (and
2213 because it's just 4 lines of code ;-).
2214 * dh_compress: is now smart about compressing files that are hardlinks.
2215 When possible, will only compress one file, delete the hardlinks, and
2216 re-make hardlinks to the compressed file, saving some disk space.
2218 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 18 Dec 1998 22:26:41 -0500
2220 debhelper (1.2.18) unstable; urgency=medium
2222 * dh_fixperms: was not fixing permissions of files in usr/doc/ to 644,
2223 this has been broken since version 1.2.3.
2225 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:35:35 -0800
2227 debhelper (1.2.17) unstable; urgency=low
2229 * dh_makeshlibs: relaxed regexp to find library name and number a little so
2230 it will work on libraries with a major but no minor version in their
2231 filename (examples of such: libtcl8.0.so.1, libBLT-unoff.so.1)
2232 * dh_movefiles: added --sourcedir option to make it move files out of
2233 some directory besides debian/tmp (#30221)
2235 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Dec 1998 13:56:57 -0800
2237 debhelper (1.2.16) unstable; urgency=low
2239 * dh_installchangelogs: now detects html changelogs and installs them as
2240 changelog.html.gz, to comply with latest policy (which I disagree with
2242 * manpages: updated policy version numbers.
2243 * dh_installdocs: behavior change: all docs are now installed mode 644.
2244 I have looked and it doesn't seem this will actually affect any packages
2245 in debian. This is useful only if you want to use dh_installdocs and not
2246 dh_fixperms, and that's the only time this behavior change will have any
2247 effect, either. (#30118)
2249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 3 Dec 1998 23:31:56 -0800
2251 debhelper (1.2.15) unstable; urgency=low
2253 * Just a re-upload, last upload failed for some obscure reason.
2255 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:07:44 -0800
2257 debhelper (1.2.14) unstable; urgency=low
2259 * Really fixed #29762 this time. This also fixes #30025, which asked that
2260 dh_makeshlibs come before dh_shlibdeps, so the files it generates can
2261 also be used as a shlibs.local file, which will be used by dh_shlibdeps.
2263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 04:00:14 -0800
2265 debhelper (1.2.13) unstable; urgency=low
2267 * Spelling and typo fixes.
2269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:23:55 -0800
2271 debhelper (1.2.12) unstable; urgency=low
2273 * examples/*: moved dh_makeshlibs call to before dh_installdeb call.
2274 (#29762). This is just so if you replace dh_makeshlibs with something
2275 that generates debian/shlibs, it still gets installed properly.
2276 * dh_suidregister: use names instead of uid's and gid's, at request of
2277 suidregister maintainer (#29802).
2279 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 21 Nov 1998 13:13:10 -0800
2281 debhelper (1.2.11) unstable; urgency=low
2283 * dh_movefiles: if given absolute filenames to move (note that that is
2284 *wrong*), it will move relative files anyway. Related to bug #29761.
2285 * dh_link: made relative links work right. (I hope!)
2287 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 20:21:51 -0800
2289 debhelper (1.2.10) unstable; urgency=low
2291 * examples/*: added dh_link calls to example rules files.
2293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:43:07 -0800
2295 debhelper (1.2.9) unstable; urgency=low
2297 * Added dh_link, which generates policy complient symlinks in binary
2298 packages, painlessly.
2300 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Nov 1998 18:43:36 -0800
2302 debhelper (1.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
2304 * Suggest dh-make (#29376).
2306 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:29:47 -0800
2308 debhelper (1.2.7) unstable; urgency=low
2310 * dh_movefiles: Fixed another bug.
2312 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Nov 1998 12:53:05 -0800
2314 debhelper (1.2.6) unstable; urgency=low
2316 * dh_movefiles: fixed non-integer comparison (#29476)
2318 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 15 Nov 1998 13:03:09 -0800
2320 debhelper (1.2.5) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * The perl conversion is complete.
2324 * dh_compress: perlized (yay, perl has readlink, no more ls -l | awk
2326 * dh_lib, dh_getopt.pl: deleted, nothing uses them anymore.
2327 * debian/rules: don't install above 2 files.
2328 * doc/PROGRAMMING: removed all documentation of the old shell library
2331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 15:36:57 -0800
2333 debhelper (1.2.4) unstable; urgency=low
2335 * dh_debstd, dh_movefiles: perlized.
2336 * dh_debstd: fixed -c option.
2337 * dh_installinit: fixed minor perl -w warning.
2338 * Only 1 shell script remains! (But it's a doozy..)
2340 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:29:39 -0800
2342 debhelper (1.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
2344 * dh_fixperms, dh_installdebfiles, dh_installdeb: perlized
2345 * dh_suidregister: perlized, with help from Che_Fox (and Tom Christianson,
2347 * dh_suidregister: include leading 0 (or 1 for sticky, etc) in file
2349 * Only 3 more to go and it'll be 100% perl.
2350 * Made $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} available to perl scripts.
2352 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:47:43 -0800
2354 debhelper (1.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2356 * dh_du, dh_shlibdeps, dh_undocumented: rewrite in perl.
2357 * dh_undocumented: shortened the symlink used for section 7 undocumented
2358 man pages, since it can link to undocuemented.7.gz in the same directory.
2360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 10 Nov 1998 13:40:22 -0800
2362 debhelper (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2364 * dh_strip, dh_installinit: rewrite in perl.
2366 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 20:04:12 -0800
2368 debhelper (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2370 * A new unstable dist means I'm back to converting more of debhelper to
2371 perl.. Since 1.1 has actually stabalized, I've upped this to 1.2.
2372 * dh_md5sums: rewritten in perl, for large speed gain under some
2373 circumstances (old version called perl sometimes, once per package.)
2374 * dh_installmenu, dh_installemacsen, dh_installwm: perlized.
2375 * Dh_Lib.pm: made autoscript() really work.
2377 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:04:16 -0800
2379 debhelper (1.1.24) unstable; urgency=low
2381 * dh_suidregister: remove suid/sgid bits from all files registered. The
2382 reason is this: if you're using suidmanager, and you want a file that
2383 ships suid to never be suid on your system, shipping it suid in the .deb
2384 will create a window where it is suid before suidmanager fixes it's
2385 permissions. This change should be transparent to users and developers.
2387 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 1998 18:19:48 -0800
2389 debhelper (1.1.23) unstable; urgency=low
2391 * dh_clean: At the suggestion of James Troup <james@nocrew.org> now deletes
2392 files named *.P in .deps/ subdirectories. They are generated by automake.
2394 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 24 Oct 1998 15:14:53 -0700
2396 debhelper (1.1.22) unstable; urgency=low
2398 * dh_fixperms: quoting fix from Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
2399 * Added support for register-window-manager command which will be in a new
2400 (as yet unreleased) xbase. Now a new dh_installwm program handles
2401 registration of a window manager and the necessary modifications to
2402 postinst and postrm. It's safe to go ahead and start using this for your
2403 window manager packages, just note that it won't do anything until the new
2404 xbase is out, and that due to the design of register-window-manager, if
2405 your wm is installed before a xbase that supports register-window-manager
2406 is installed, the window manager will never be registered. (#20971)
2408 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:08:04 -0700
2410 debhelper (1.1.21) unstable; urgency=low
2412 * Added install to .PHONY target of example rules files.
2414 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 11 Oct 1998 22:36:10 -0700
2416 debhelper (1.1.20) unstable; urgency=low
2418 * Added a --same-arch flag, that is useful in the rare case when you have
2419 a package that builds only for 1 architecture, as part of a multi-part,
2420 multi-architecture source package. (Ie, netscape-dmotif).
2421 * Modified dh_installinit -r so it does start the daemon on the initial
2424 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 2 Oct 1998 15:55:13 -0700
2426 debhelper (1.1.19) unstable; urgency=low
2428 * dh_installmanpages: look at basename of man pacges specified on command
2429 line to skip, for backwards compatability.
2431 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 10 Sep 1998 11:31:42 -0700
2433 debhelper (1.1.18) unstable; urgency=low
2435 * dh_installemacsen: substitute package name for #PACKAGE# when setting
2436 up postinst and prerm (#26560).
2438 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 8 Sep 1998 14:24:30 -0700
2440 debhelper (1.1.17) unstable; urgency=low
2442 * dh_strip: on Richard Braakman's advice, strip the .comment and .note
2443 sections of shared libraries.
2444 * Added DH_OPTIONS environment variable - anything in it will be treated
2445 as additional command line arguments by all debhelper commands. This in
2446 useful in some situations, for example, if you need to pass -p to all
2447 debhelper commands that will be run. If you use DH_OPTIONS, be sure to
2448 use dh_testversion 1.1.17 - older debhelpers will ignore it and do
2449 things you don't want them to.
2450 * Made -N properly exclude packages when no -i, -a, or -p flags are
2451 present. It didn't before, which was a bug.
2453 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:33:19 -0700
2455 debhelper (1.1.16) unstable; urgency=low
2457 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from static libraries as well as
2458 shared libraries. (#26414)
2460 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 4 Sep 1998 14:46:37 -0700
2462 debhelper (1.1.15) unstable; urgency=medium
2464 * dh_installmanpages: the new perl version had a nasty habit of
2465 installing .so.x library files as man pages. Fixed.
2466 * dh_installmanpages: the code to exclude searching for man pages in
2467 debian/tmp directories was broken. Fixed.
2469 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:05:17 -0700
2471 debhelper (1.1.14) unstable; urgency=low
2473 * Debhelper now has a web page at http://kitenet.net/programs/debhelper/
2475 * Added code to debian/rules to update the web page when I release new
2477 * dh_compress: since version 0.88 or so, dh_compress has bombed out if
2478 a debian/compress file returned an error code. This was actually
2479 unintentional - in fact, the debian/compress example in the man page
2480 will fail this way if usr/info or usr/X11R6 is not present. Corrected
2481 the program to not fail. (#26214)
2483 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:15:44 -0700
2485 debhelper (1.1.13) unstable; urgency=low
2487 * dh_installmanpages: rewritten in perl. Allows me to fix bug #26221 (long
2488 symlink problem after .so conversion), and is about twice as fast.
2490 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:06:06 -0700
2492 debhelper (1.1.12) unstable; urgency=low
2494 * dh_installdocs: forgot to pass package name to isnative(). Any native
2495 debian package that had a debian/TODO would have it installed with the
2496 wrong name, and debhelper would warn of undefined values for some
2499 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:35:42 -0700
2501 debhelper (1.1.11) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * dh_installchangelogs: added -k flag, that will make it install a symlink
2504 to the original name of the upstream changelog.
2506 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 15:40:40 -0700
2508 debhelper (1.1.10) unstable; urgency=low
2510 * It's come to my attention that a few packages use filename globbing in
2511 debian/{docs,examples,whatever} files and expect that to work. It used
2512 to work before the perl conversion, but it was never _documented_, or
2513 intented to work. If you use this in your packages, they are broken and
2514 need fixing (and will refuse to build with current versions of debhelper).
2515 I apologize for the inconvenience.
2517 * dh_clean: fixed a bug, intorduced in version 1.1.8, where it didn't
2518 remove debian/files properly.
2519 * dh_shlibdeps, dh_testdir, dh_testroot, dh_testversion: converted to perl.
2520 * Encode the version of debhelper in a sepererate file, so dh_testversion
2521 doesn't have to be generated when a new version of debhelper is built.
2522 * Removed bogus menu file.
2524 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:15:17 -0700
2526 debhelper (1.1.9) unstable; urgency=low
2528 * dh_fixperms: has been removing the +x bits of all doc/*/examples/* files
2529 since version 0.97 or so. Fixed.
2531 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 16 Aug 1998 17:11:48 -0700
2533 debhelper (1.1.8) unstable; urgency=low
2535 * Dh_Lib.pm: made U_PARAMS an array of parameters.
2536 * Dh_Lib.pm: fixed bug in the escaping code, numbers don't need to be
2537 escaped. Also, no longer escape "-".
2538 * dh_clean, dh_gencontrol, dh_installcron: converted to perl.
2539 * dh_gencontrol.1, dh_gencontrol: the man page had said that
2540 --update-rcd-params was equivilant to -u for this program. You should
2541 really use --dpkg-gencontrol-params.
2543 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Aug 1998 14:07:35 -0700
2545 debhelper (1.1.7) unstable; urgency=low
2547 * examples/rules.multi: moved dh_movefiles into the install section.
2548 * doc/README: Added a note explaining why above change was necessary.
2549 * Dh_Lib.pm: escape_shell(): now escapes the full range of special
2550 characters recognized by bash (and ksh). Thanks to Branden Robinson
2551 <branden@purdue.edu> for looking that up.
2553 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 23:32:05 -0700
2555 debhelper (1.1.6) unstable; urgency=low
2557 * dh_movefiles: don't die on symlinks (#25642). (Hope I got the fix right
2560 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 20:11:13 -0700
2562 debhelper (1.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
2564 * dh_builddeb, dh_installchangelogs: converted to perl.
2565 * dh_installdirs: converted to perl, getting rid of nasty chdir en-route.
2566 * dh_installdirs: now you can use absolute directory names too if you
2568 * doc/PROGRAMMING: updated to cover new perl modules.
2569 * Dh_Lib.pm: doit(): when printing out commands that have run, escape
2570 metacharacters in the output. I probably don't escape out all the
2571 characters I should, but this is just a convenience to the user anyway.
2572 * dh_installdebfiles: it's been broken forever, I fixed it. Obviously
2573 nobody uses it anymore, which is good, since it's deprected :-)
2575 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 15:23:34 -0700
2577 debhelper (1.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
2579 * dh_movefiles: fixed bug introduced in 1.1.1 where it would fail in some
2580 cases if you tried to move a broken symlink.
2581 * dh_installdocs: was only operating on the first package.
2582 * dh_installexamples: rewritten in perl.
2583 * Dh_Lib.pm: all multiple package operations were broken.
2584 * Dh_Lib.pm: implemented complex_doit() and autoscript().
2585 * Made all perl code work with use strict and -w (well, except
2586 dh_getopt.pl, but that's a hack that'll go away one day).
2587 * I didn't realize, but rewriting dh_installdocs in perl fixed bug #24686
2588 (blank lines in debian/docs file problem), although this same problem
2589 applies to other debhelper programs... like dh_installexamples, which had
2590 the same bug fixed when I rewrote it in perl just now.
2591 * Dh_Lib.pm: accidentially didn't check DH_VERBOSE if commands were not
2592 passed any switches.
2593 * Dh_Getopt.pm: --noscripts was broken.
2595 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 12:44:04 -0700
2597 debhelper (1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2599 * dh_md5sums: -x was broken since version 1.1.1 - fixed.
2600 * dh_lib: removed get_arch_indep_packages() function that hasn't been used
2601 at all for a long while.
2602 * Added Dh_Lib.pm, a translation of dh_lib into perl.
2603 * dh_getopt.pl: moved most of it into new Dh_Getopt.pm module, rewriting
2604 large chunks in the process.
2605 * dh_installdocs: completly rewritten in perl. Now it's faster and it can
2606 install many oddly named files it died on before.
2607 * dh_installdocs: fixed a bug that installed TODO files mode 655 in native
2610 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 15:01:15 -0700
2612 debhelper (1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2614 * dh_strip: added -X to specify files to not strip (#25590).
2615 * Added dh_installemacsen, for automatic registration with emacsen-common
2617 * Preliminary thoughts in TODO about converting entire debhelper programs
2620 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0700
2622 debhelper (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2624 * dh_movefiles: try to move all files specified, and only then bomb out if
2625 some of the file could not be found. Makes it easier for some packages
2626 that don't always have the same files in them.
2627 * dh_compress: any parameters passed to it on the command line specify
2628 additional files to be compressed in the first package acted on.
2629 * dh_compress: recognize standard -A parameter.
2631 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 22:48:01 -0700
2633 debhelper (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2635 * New unstable branch of debhelper.
2637 * TODO: list all current bugs, in order I plan to tackle them.
2638 * Added debhelper.1 man page, which groups all the debhelper options that
2639 are common to all commands in once place so I can add new options w/o
2640 updating 27 man pages.
2641 * dh_*.1: updated all debheper man pages to refer to debhelper(1) where
2642 appropriate. Also corrected a host of little errors.
2643 * doc/README: moved a lot of this file into debhelper.1.
2644 * dh_*: -N option now excludes a package from the list of packages the
2645 programs act on. (#25247)
2647 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:49:56 -0700
2649 debhelper (1.0) stable unstable; urgency=low
2653 * This relelase is not really intended for stable. I throw a copy into
2654 stable-updates because I want it to be available as an upgrade for
2655 people using debian 2.0 (the current version in debian 2.0 has no
2656 critical bugs, but this version is of course a lot nicer), and I plan
2657 to start work on a new branch of debhelper that will fix many wishlist
2658 bug reports, and of course introduce many new bugs, and which will go
2661 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 8 Aug 1998 17:33:20 -0700
2663 debhelper (0.99.4) unstable; urgency=low
2665 * dh_debstd: only warn about scripts that actually lack #DEBHELPER#.
2668 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:06:28 -0700
2670 debhelper (0.99.3) unstable; urgency=low
2672 * dh_movefiles: Fixed a over-eager sanity check introduced in the last
2675 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 3 Aug 1998 18:31:45 -0700
2677 debhelper (0.99.2) unstable; urgency=low
2679 * dh_movefiles: allow passing of files to move on the command line. Only
2680 rarely does this make sense. (#25197)
2682 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 30 Jul 1998 10:38:34 -0700
2684 debhelper (0.99.1) unstable; urgency=low
2686 * dh_installcron: now supports /etc/cron.d (#25112).
2688 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Jul 1998 20:18:47 -0700
2690 debhelper (0.99) unstable; urgency=low
2692 * !!!! WARNING: Debhelper (specifically dh_compress) is broken with
2693 !!!! libtricks. Use fakeroot instead until this is fixed.
2694 * dh_compress: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2695 to make it not fail if there are no candidates for compression (#24654).
2696 * Removed a whole debhelper-0.96 tree that had crept into the source
2697 package by accident.
2698 * Is version 1.0 next?
2700 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:03:21 -0700
2702 debhelper (0.98) unstable; urgency=low
2704 * dh_lib: isnative: pass -l<changelog> to dpkg-parsechangelog, to support
2705 odd packages with multiple different debian changelogs.
2706 * doc/PROGRAMMING: cleaned up the docs on DH_EXCLUDE_FIND.
2708 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:45:13 -0700
2710 debhelper (0.97) unstable; urgency=low
2712 * doc/from-debstd: fixed a typo.
2713 * examples/*: install-stamp no longer depends on phony build targey; now
2714 install-stamp depends on build-stamp instead (#24234).
2715 * dh_fixperms: applied patch from Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2716 to fix bad uses of the find command, so it should now work on packages
2717 with files with spaces in them (#22005). It's also much cleaner. Thanks,
2719 * dh_getopt.pl, doc/PROGRAMMING: added DH_EXCLUDE_FIND, to make the above
2722 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 5 Jul 1998 18:09:25 -0700
2724 debhelper (0.96) unstable; urgency=low
2726 * dh_movefiles: fixed serious breakage introduced in the last version.
2727 * dh_movefiles: really order all symlinks last.
2728 * some minor reorganization of the source tree.
2730 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:53:45 -0700
2732 debhelper (0.95) unstable; urgency=low
2734 * dh_movefiles: move even very strangly named files. (#23775) Unfortunatly,
2735 I had to use a temporary file. Oh well..
2737 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:17 -0700
2739 debhelper (0.94) unstable; urgency=low
2741 * dh_md5sums: fixed so it handles spaces and other odd characters in
2742 filenames correctly. (#23046, #23700, #22010)
2743 * As a side effect, got rid of the nasty temporary file dh_md5sums used
2746 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jun 1998 16:14:42 -0700
2748 debhelper (0.93) unstable; urgency=low
2750 * Depend on file, since several dh_*'s use it.
2752 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 21:43:51 -0700
2754 debhelper (0.92) unstable; urgency=low
2756 * dh_gencontrol: pass -isp to dpkg-gencontrol to make it include section
2757 and priority info in the .deb file. Back in Jan 1998, this came up, and
2758 a consensus was reached on debian-devel that it was a good thing for
2761 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:15:24 -0700
2763 debhelper (0.91) unstable; urgency=low
2765 * dh_installdocs: support debian/<package>.{README.Debian,TODO}
2767 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 17 Jun 1998 19:09:35 -0700
2769 debhelper (0.90) unstable; urgency=low
2771 * I'd like to thank Len Pikulski and Igor Grobman at nothinbut.net for
2772 providing me with free internet access on a moment's notice, so I could
2773 get this package to you after hacking on it all over New England for the
2774 past week. Thanks, guys!
2776 * Added dh_debstd, which mimics the functionality of the debstd command.
2777 It's not a complete nor an exact copy, and it's not so much intended to
2778 be used in a debian/rules file, as it is to be run by hand when you are
2779 converting a package from debstd to debhelper. "dh_debstd -v" will
2780 output the sequence of debhelper commands that approximate what debstd
2781 would do in the same situation.
2782 * dh_debstd is completly untested, I don't have the source to any packages
2783 that use debstd available. Once this is tested, I plan to release
2785 * Added a from-debstd document that gives a recipe to convert from debstd
2787 * dh_fixperms: can now use -X to exclude files from having their
2788 permissions changed.
2789 * dh_testroot: test for uid == 0, instead of username == root, becuase
2790 some people enjoy changing root's name.
2791 * dh_installinit: handle debian/init.d as well as debian/init files,
2792 for backwards compatability with debstd. Unlike with debstd, the two
2793 files are treated identically.
2794 * dh_lib, PROGRAMMING: added "warning" function.
2795 * Minor man page fixes.
2796 * dh_compress: don't bomb out if usr/doc/<package> is empty. (#23054)
2797 * dh_compress, dh_installdirs: always cd into $TMP and back out, even if
2798 --no-act is on. (#23054)
2800 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:57:45 -0400
2802 debhelper (0.88) unstable; urgency=low
2804 * I had many hours on a train to hack on debhelper... enjoy!
2805 * dh_compress: always pass -f to gzip, to force compression.
2806 * dh_compress: added -X switch, to make it easy to specify files to
2807 exclude, without all the bother of a debian/compress script. You can
2808 use -X multiple times, too.
2809 * PROGRAMMING, dh_getopt.pl: DH_EXCLUDE is now a variable set by the
2810 --exclude (-X) switch. -x now sets DH_INCLUDE_CONFFILES.
2812 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 17 May 1998 11:26:09 -0700
2814 debhelper (0.87) unstable; urgency=low
2816 * dh_strip: strip .comment and .note, not comment and note, when stripping
2817 elf binaries. This makes for smaller output files. This has always been
2818 broken in debhelper before! (#22395)
2820 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 13 May 1998 11:54:29 -0700
2822 debhelper (0.86) unstable; urgency=low
2824 * dh_compress: don't try to re-compress *.gz files. Eliminates warning
2825 messages in some cases, shouldn't actually change the result at all.
2827 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:21:33 -0700
2829 debhelper (0.85) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Moved a few things around that were broken by Che's patch:
2832 - dh_installdirs should go in install target.
2833 - dh_clean should not run in binary targets.
2834 * This is just a quick fix to make it work, I'm not happy with it. I'm
2835 going to discuss my problems with it with Che, and either make a new
2836 version fixing them, or revert to 0.83.
2837 * So be warned that the example rules files are not currently in good
2838 shape if you're starting a new package.
2840 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Apr 1998 23:30:38 -0700
2842 debhelper (0.84) unstable; urgency=low
2844 * Applied Che_Fox'x patches to example rules files, which makes them use
2845 an install target internally to move things into place in debian/tmp.
2847 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 9 Apr 1998 12:08:45 -0700
2849 debhelper (0.83) unstable; urgency=low
2851 * Generate symlinks in build stage of debian/rules. cvs cannot create them
2852 properly. Note that version 0.80 and 0.81 could not build some packages
2853 because of missing symlinks.
2855 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:27:29 -0800
2857 debhelper (0.81) unstable; urgency=low
2859 * dh_movefiles: empty $tomove (#20495).
2861 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 31 Mar 1998 15:36:32 -0800
2863 debhelper (0.80) unstable; urgency=low
2865 * Moved under cvs (so I can fork a stable and an unstable version).
2866 * dh_movefiles: first move real files, then move symlinks. (#18220)
2867 Thanks to Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> and Adam Heath
2868 <adam.heath@usa.net> for help on the implementation.
2869 * dh_installchangelogs: use debian/package.changelog files if they exist
2870 rather than debian/changelog. It appears some people do need per-package
2872 * dh_gencontrol: if debian/package.changelogs files exist, use them.
2873 * Above 2 changes close #20442.
2875 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:54:26 -0800
2877 debhelper (0.78) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2879 * More spelling fixes from Christian T. Steigies. (I ignored the spelling
2880 fixes to the changelog, though - too many, and a changelog isn't meant
2881 to be changed after the fact :-)
2882 * dh_fixperms: remove execute bits from .la files genrated by libtool.
2884 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:44:42 -0800
2886 debhelper (0.77) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2888 * Fixed a nasty bug in dh_makeshlibs when it was called with -V, but with
2889 no version string after the -V.
2891 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 29 Mar 1998 16:08:27 -0800
2893 debhelper (0.76) frozen unstable; urgency=low
2895 * I intended version 0.75 to make it in before the freeze, and it did not.
2896 This is just to get it into frozen. There are no changes except bug
2899 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 26 Mar 1998 12:25:47 -0800
2901 debhelper (0.75) unstable; urgency=low
2903 * Actually exit if there is an unknown option on the command line (oooops!)
2904 * Fix .so file conversion to actually work (#19933).
2906 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 19 Mar 1998 11:54:58 -0800
2908 debhelper (0.74) unstable; urgency=low
2910 * dh_installmanpages: convert .so links to symlinks at last (#19829).
2911 * dh_installmanpages.1: documented that no, dh_installmanpages never
2912 installs symlink man pages from the source package (#19831).
2913 * dh_installmanpages: minor speedups
2914 * PROGRAMMING: numerous spelling fixes, thanks to Christian T. Steigies.
2915 Life is too short for me to spell check my technical documentation, but
2916 I always welcome corrections!
2918 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:09:07 -0800
2920 debhelper (0.73) unstable; urgency=low
2922 * Fixed typo in dh_suidregister.1
2924 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Mar 1998 16:30:27 -0800
2926 debhelper (0.72) unstable; urgency=low
2928 * Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com> to add a
2929 --init-script parameter to dh_installinit. (#19227)
2930 * Documented this new switch.
2932 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:12:04 -0800
2934 debhelper (0.71) unstable; urgency=low
2936 * dh_makeshlibs: -V flag was broken: if just -V was specified,
2937 dh_makeshlibs would die. Corrected this.
2938 * dh_lib: removed warning if the arguments passed to a debhelper command
2939 do not apply to the main package. It's been long enough so I'm 100% sure
2940 no packages use the old behavior.
2942 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:46:59 -0800
2944 debhelper (0.70) unstable; urgency=low
2946 * dh_lib: autoscript(): no longer add the modification date to the
2947 comments aurrounding debhelper-added code. I don't think this date was
2948 gaining us anything, so let's remove it and save some disk space.
2950 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 21:15:13 -0800
2952 debhelper (0.69) unstable; urgency=low
2954 * Refer to suidregister (8), not (1). Bug #19149.
2955 * Removed junk file from debian/ dir.
2957 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 8 Mar 1998 13:04:36 -0800
2959 debhelper (0.68) unstable; urgency=low
2961 * Document that README.debian files are installed as README.Debian (#19089).
2963 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 17:48:32 -0800
2965 debhelper (0.67) unstable; urgency=low
2967 * Added PROGRAMMING document that describes the interface of dh_lib, to
2968 aid others in writing and understanding debhelper programs.
2970 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:45:08 -0800
2972 debhelper (0.66) unstable; urgency=low
2974 * README, dh_testversion.1, dh_movefiles.1: more doc fixes.
2975 * dh_movefiles: don't check for package names to see if files are being
2976 moved from one package back into itself, instead, check tmp dir names.
2977 If you use this behavior, you should use "dh_testversion 0.66".
2979 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:50:29 -0800
2981 debhelper (0.65) unstable; urgency=low
2983 * dh_installdocs.1, dh_movefiles.1: clarified documentation for Che.
2985 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:20:39 -0800
2987 debhelper (0.64) unstable; urgency=low
2989 * Removed some junk (a whole old debhelper source tree!) that had gotten
2990 into the source package by accident.
2992 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:23:34 -0800
2994 debhelper (0.63) unstable; urgency=low
2996 * Removed some debugging output from dh_installmanpages.
2997 * du_du: no longer does anything, becuase it has been decided on
2998 debian-policy that du control files are bad.
2999 * examples/*: removed dh_du calls.
3000 * debian/rules: removed dh_du call.
3001 * Modified dh_gencontrol, dh_makeshlibs, and dh_md5sums to generate files
3002 with the correct permissions even if the umask is set to unusual
3005 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:36 -0800
3007 debhelper (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
3009 * dh_installmanpages: if the man page filename ends in 'x', install it in
3011 * TODO: expanded descriptions of stuff, in the hope someone else will get
3012 inspired to implement some of it.
3013 * Also added all wishlist bugs to the TODO.
3015 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 12 Feb 1998 22:38:53 -0800
3017 debhelper (0.61) unstable; urgency=low
3019 * dh_installmanpages: Add / to end of egrep -v regexp, fixes it so
3020 debian/icewm.1 can be found.
3022 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:09:28 -0800
3024 debhelper (0.60) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * dh_fixperms: make all files readable and writable by owner
3027 (policy 3.3.8 paragraph 2).
3028 Lintian found lots of bugs that will be fixed by this change.
3030 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 9 Feb 1998 12:26:13 -0800
3032 debhelper (0.59) unstable; urgency=low
3034 * Added DH_NO_ACT and --no-act, which make debhelper commands run without
3035 actually doing anything. (Combine with -v to see what the command would
3036 have done.) (#17598)
3038 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 1 Feb 1998 14:51:08 -0800
3040 debhelper (0.58) unstable; urgency=low
3042 * Fixed bug #17597 - DH_VERBOSE wasn'talways taking effect.
3044 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 28 Jan 1998 17:18:17 -0500
3046 debhelper (0.57) unstable; urgency=low
3048 * Depend on perl 5.004 or greater (for Getopt::Long).
3050 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 17 Jan 1998 02:12:06 -0500
3052 debhelper (0.56) unstable; urgency=low
3054 * dh_compress: Applied patch from Yann Dirson <ydirson@a2points.com>,
3055 to make it not abort of one of the find's fails.
3057 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jan 1998 19:16:48 -0500
3059 debhelper (0.55) unstable; urgency=low
3061 * dh_clean: delete substvarsfiles probperly again (broken in 0.53). #17077
3062 * Added call to dh_movefiles, and a commented out call to dh_testversion,
3063 to some of the sample rules files. #17076
3065 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:48:43 -0500
3067 debhelper (0.54) unstable; urgency=low
3069 * dh_lib: no longer call getopt(1) to parse options. I wrote my own
3070 argument processor in perl.
3071 * Added long versions of all arguments. TODO: document them.
3072 * All parameters may now be passed values that include whitespace (ie,
3073 dh_installinit -u"defaults 10")
3074 * Now depends on perl (needs Getopt::Long).
3076 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:44:09 -0500
3078 debhelper (0.53) unstable; urgency=low
3080 * dh_installmanpages: ignore all man pages installed into debian/tmp
3081 type directories. (#16933)
3082 * dh_*: set up alternative name for files like debian/dirs; you may now
3083 use debian/<mainpackage>.dirs too, for consistency. (#16934)
3084 * dh_installdocs: if a debian/package.copyright file exists, use it in
3085 preference to debian/copyright, so subpackages with varying copyrights
3086 are supported. (#16935)
3087 * Added dh_movefiles, which moves files out of debian/tmp into subpackages.
3090 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 10 Jan 1998 11:30:12 -0500
3092 debhelper (0.52) unstable; urgency=low
3094 * dh_compress: compress file belongs in debian/. It was looking in ./
3095 This has been broken since version 0.30.
3097 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:08:31 -0500
3099 debhelper (0.51) unstable; urgency=low
3101 * dh_fixperms: make shared libraries non-executable, in accordance with
3103 * dh_makeshlibs: introduced a -V flag, which allows you to specify explicit
3104 version requirements in the shlibs file.
3105 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregister,undocumented}:
3106 Added a -A flag, which makes any files/directories specified on the
3107 command line apply to ALL packages acted on.
3108 * Updated Standards-Version to latest.
3110 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 5 Jan 1998 16:15:01 -0500
3112 debhelper (0.50) unstable; urgency=low
3114 * dh_makeshlibs: added -m parameter, which can force the major number
3115 of the shared library if it is guessed incorrectly.
3116 * Added dh_testversion to let your package depend on a certian version of
3118 * dh_{installdirs,installdocs,installexamples,suidregieter,undocumented}:
3119 behavior modification - any files/directories specified on the command
3120 line now apply to the first package acted on. This may not be the
3121 first package listed in debian/control, if you use -p to make it act on
3122 a given package, or -i or -a.
3123 * If you take advantage of the above new behavior, I suggest you add
3124 "dh_testversion 0.50" to your debian/rules.
3125 * Display a warning message in cases where the above behavior is triggered,
3126 and debhelper's behavior has altered.
3127 * I have grepped debian's source packages, and I'm quite sure this
3128 is not going to affect any packages currently in debian.
3129 * dh_lib: isnative() now caches its return value, which should optimize
3130 away several more calls to dpkg-parsechangelog.
3131 * README: explain a way to embed debhelper generated shell script into a
3133 * dh_installinit: A hack to work around the problem in getopt(1) that
3134 led to bug report #16229: Any text specified on the command line that is
3135 not a flag will be presumed to be part of the -u flag. Yuck.
3137 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 3 Jan 1998 14:36:15 -0500
3139 debhelper (0.37) unstable; urgency=low
3141 * dh_du: Fixed hardcoded debian/tmp.
3142 * This change got lost by accident, redid it: Optimized out most of the
3143 slowdown caused by using dpkg-parsechangelog - now it's only called by
3146 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Dec 1997 20:45:22 -0500
3148 debhelper (0.36) unstable; urgency=low
3150 * dh_undocumented: exit with an error message if the man page specified
3151 does not have a section.
3153 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:14:04 -0500
3155 debhelper (0.35) unstable; urgency=low
3157 * dh_lib: use dpkg-parsechangelog instead of parsing it by hand. This
3158 makes a package build slower (by about 30 seconds, on average), so
3159 I might remove it or optimize it if too many people yell at me. :-)
3160 * dh_undocumented.1: note that it really links to undocumented.7.gz.
3162 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 22:19:39 -0500
3164 debhelper (0.34) unstable; urgency=low
3166 * Fixed typo #16215.
3168 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Dec 1997 14:41:46 -0500
3170 debhelper (0.33) unstable; urgency=low
3172 * examples/*: use prefix, instead of PREFIX, becuase autoconf uses that.
3173 Also, use `pwd`/debian/tmp, instead of debian/tmp.
3174 * Always substitute #DEBHELPER# in maintainer scripts, even if it expands
3175 to nothing, for neatness and to save a few bytes. #15863
3176 * dh_clean: added -k parameter to not delete debian/files. #15789
3177 * examples/*: use dh_clean -k in the binary targets of all rules files,
3180 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 11 Dec 1997 19:05:41 -0500
3182 debhelper (0.32) unstable; urgency=low
3184 * Split dh_installdebfiles into 3 programs (dh_installdeb, dh_shlibdeps,
3185 and dh_gencontrol). dh_installdebfiles still works, but is depricated.
3186 * Added an examples/rules.indep file.
3187 * examples/rules.multi: changed dh_du -a to dh_du -i in binary-indep
3190 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 10 Dec 1997 19:53:13 -0500
3192 debhelper (0.31) unstable; urgency=low
3194 * Fixed man page typos #15685.
3196 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 6 Dec 1997 21:44:58 -0500
3198 debhelper (0.30) unstable; urgency=low
3200 * dh_md5sumes, dh_installdirs, dh_compress: fixed assorted cd bugs.
3202 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 5 Dec 1997 15:08:36 -0500
3204 debhelper (0.29) unstable; urgency=low
3206 * dh_lib: don't expand text passed to doit() a second time. This fixes
3207 #15624, and hopefully doesn't break anything else.
3208 * A side effect of this (of interest only to the debhelper programmer) is
3209 that doit() can no longer handle complex commands now. (ie, pipes, `;',
3210 `&', etc separating multiple commands, or redirection)
3211 * dh_makeshlibs, dh_md5sums, dh_installdebfiles, dh_du, dh_clean,
3212 dh_installdirs: don't pass complex commands to doit().
3214 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 4 Dec 1997 13:56:14 -0500
3216 debhelper (0.28) unstable; urgency=low
3218 * dh_makeshlibs: fixes type that caused the program to crash (#15536).
3220 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 3 Dec 1997 13:22:48 -0500
3222 debhelper (0.27) unstable; urgency=low
3224 * README: fixed typoes (one serious).
3225 * Ran ispell on all the documentation.
3227 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 18:48:20 -0500
3229 debhelper (0.26) unstable; urgency=low
3231 * dh_installdirs: Do not create usr/doc/$PACKAGE directory. Bug #15498
3232 * README: documented that $PACKAGE can be used in the arguments to some of
3233 the dh_* programs (#15497).
3234 * dh_du.1: no, this is not really the dh_md5sums man page (#15499).
3236 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:01:40 -0500
3238 debhelper (0.25) unstable; urgency=low
3240 * dh_compress: was not reading debian/compress file - fixed.
3241 * examples/*: moved dh_clean call to after make clean is run.
3243 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:58 -0500
3245 debhelper (0.24) unstable; urgency=low
3247 * dh_clean: no longer clean up empty (0 byte) files (#15240).
3249 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:29:37 -0500
3251 debhelper (0.23) unstable; urgency=low
3253 * Now depends on fileutils (>= 3.16-4), becuase with any earlier version
3254 of fileutils, install -p will not work (#14680)
3256 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 19 Nov 1997 23:59:43 -0500
3258 debhelper (0.22) unstable; urgency=low
3260 * dh_installdocs: Install README.debian as README.Debian (of course,
3261 README.Debian is installed with the same name..)
3263 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 18 Nov 1997 01:23:53 -0500
3265 debhelper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
3267 * dh_installinit: on removal, fixed how update-rc.d is called.
3269 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 15 Nov 1997 20:43:14 -0500
3271 debhelper (0.20) unstable; urgency=low
3273 * Added dh_installinit, which installs an init.d script, and edits the
3274 postinst, postrm, etc.
3276 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 14 Nov 1997 00:45:53 -0500
3278 debhelper (0.19) unstable; urgency=low
3280 * dh_installmenu.1: menufile is in section 5, not 1.
3282 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:54:48 -0500
3284 debhelper (0.18) unstable; urgency=low
3286 * examples/*: added source, diff targets that just print an error.
3287 * dh_clean: clean up more files - *.orig, *.rej, *.bak, .*.orig, .*.rej,
3288 .SUMS, TAGS, and empty files.
3289 * dh_lib: doit(): use eval on parameters, instead of directly running
3290 them. This lets me clean up several nasty areas where I had to echo the
3291 commands once, and then run them seperatly.
3293 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 10 Nov 1997 19:48:36 -0500
3295 debhelper (0.17) unstable; urgency=low
3297 * Added dh_installdirs, automatically creates subdirectories (for
3298 compatability with debstd's debian/dirs file.
3299 * dh_lib: fixed problem with -P flag.
3301 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 7 Nov 1997 16:07:11 -0500
3303 debhelper (0.16) unstable; urgency=low
3305 * dh_compress: always compress changelog and upstream changelog, no
3306 matter what their size (#14604) (policy 5.8)
3308 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 19:50:36 -0500
3310 debhelper (0.15) unstable; urgency=low
3312 * README: documented what temporary directories are used by default for
3313 installing package files into.
3314 * dh_*: added -P flag, to let a different package build directory be
3317 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Thu, 6 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0500
3319 debhelper (0.14) unstable; urgency=low
3321 * dh_fixperms: leave permissions on files in /usr/doc/packages/examples
3323 * Install examples/rules* executable.
3325 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:42:33 -0500
3327 debhelper (0.13) unstable; urgency=low
3329 * Added dh_makeshlibs, automatically generates a shlibs file.
3331 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 20:33:14 -0400
3333 debhelper (0.12) unstable; urgency=low
3335 * Fixed mispelling of dh_md5sums in examples rules files and README.
3336 (#13990) Thanks, Adrian.
3338 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:35:30 -0400
3340 debhelper (0.11) unstable; urgency=low
3342 * dh_md5sums: behavior modification: do not generate md5sums for conffiles.
3343 (Thanks to Charles Briscoe-Smith <cpb4@ukc.ac.uk>) #14048.
3344 * dh_md5sums: can generate conffile md5sums with -x parameter.
3345 * Added a "converting from debstd" section to the README.
3346 * Added dh_du, generates a DEBIAN/du file with disk usage stats (#14048).
3348 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 13:17:28 -0400
3350 debhelper (0.10) unstable; urgency=medium
3352 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed *bad* bug that messed up the names of all
3353 files installed into DEBIAN/ for multiple binary packages.
3354 * dh_md5sums: fixed another serious bug if dh_md5sums was used for
3355 multiple binary packages.
3356 * If you have made any multiple binary packages using debhelper, you
3357 should rebuild them with this version.
3358 * dh_md5sums: show cd commands in verbose mode.
3360 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 20 Oct 1997 14:44:30 -0400
3362 debhelper (0.9) unstable; urgency=low
3364 * Added dh_suidregister, interfaces to to the suidmanager package.
3365 * dh_installdebfiles: fixed typo on man page.
3367 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sat, 18 Oct 1997 20:55:39 -0400
3369 debhelper (0.8) unstable; urgency=low
3371 * Added dh_md5sum, generates a md5sums file.
3372 * dh_clean: fixed to echo all commands when verbose mode is on.
3374 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:18:26 -0400
3376 debhelper (0.7) unstable; urgency=low
3378 * Sped up some things by removing unnecesary for loops.
3379 * dh_installdocs: behavior modifcation: if there is a debian/TODO, it is
3380 named like a debian/changelog file: if the package is a debian native
3381 package, it is installed as TODO. If the package is not a native package,
3382 it is installed as TODO.Debian.
3383 * dh_installdocs: handle debian/README.Debian as well as
3384 debian/README.debian.
3385 * Added dh_undocumented program, which can set up undocumented.7 symlinks.
3386 * Moved dh_installdebfiles to come after dh_fixperms in the example rules
3387 files. (dh_installdebfiles makes sure it installs things with the proper
3388 permissions, and this reorganization makes the file a bit more flexable
3389 in a few situations.)
3391 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:08:05 -0400
3393 debhelper (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
3395 * Got rid of bashisms - this package should work now if /bin/sh is ash.
3397 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:24:40 -0400
3399 debhelper (0.5) unstable; urgency=low
3401 * Added dh_installcron to install cron jobs.
3403 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:37:41 -0400
3405 debhelper (0.4) unstable; urgency=low
3407 * Added dh_strip to strip binaries and libraries.
3408 * Fixed several man pages.
3410 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Sun, 28 Sep 1997 20:46:32 -0400
3412 debhelper (0.3) unstable; urgency=low
3414 * Added support for automatic generation of debian install scripts to
3415 dh_installmenu and dh_installdebfiles and dh_clean.
3416 * Removed some pointless uses of cat.
3418 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 26 Sep 1997 21:52:53 -0400
3420 debhelper (0.2) unstable; urgency=low
3422 * Moved out of unstable, it still has rough edges and incomplete bits, but
3423 is ready for general use.
3424 * Added man pages for all commands.
3425 * Multiple binary package support.
3426 * Support for specifying exactly what set of binary packages to act on,
3427 by group (arch or noarch), and by package name.
3428 * dh_clean: allow specification of additional files to remove as
3430 * dh_compress: fixed it to not compress doc/package/copyright
3431 * dh_installmanpage: allow listing of man pages that should not be
3432 auto-installed as parameters.
3433 * dh_installdebfiles: make sure all installed files have proper ownerships
3435 * dh_installdebfiles: only pass ELF files to dpkg-shlibdeps, and pass .so
3438 * dh_compress: changed behavior - debian/compress script is now run inside
3439 the package build directory it is to act on.
3440 * Added dh_lib symlink in debian/ so the debhelper apps used in this
3441 package's debian/rules always use the most up-to-date db_lib.
3442 * Changed dh_cleantmp commands in the examples rules files to dh_clean.
3444 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 23 Sep 1997 12:26:12 -0400
3446 debhelper (0.1) experimental; urgency=low
3448 * First release. This is a snapshot of my work so far, and it not yet
3449 ready to replace debstd.
3451 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:01:25 -0400